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The 16 Principles of Options Group

Options Group 16 target principles are grouped under three main headings: -

A. Unconditional Valuing of Individuals

1. To challenge and seek to eliminate all forms of prejudice, bullying and intimidation.

2. To take all complaints and concerns seriously, to investigate thoroughly and to be open to external scrutiny.  To encourage access to legitimate external advocacy.

3. To be open with communications and to share information (where individual or commercial confidentiality is not breached) with the full range of stakeholders in the organisation.

4. To treat each person as an individual, to include their genuine participation in decisions about them and enable them to challenge those decisions.

5. To promote ongoing contact between each person and their family, wherever possible.

6. To undertake all our responsibilities with due sensitivity to the age and understanding of the person concerned

B.  Enabling Individuals to extend their options for
adult life.

7. To set no artificial or unjustifiable limits to the achievement of anyone’s potential, be they a person receiving services or a staff member.

8. To provide a range of educational and therapeutic opportunities to enable each person to achieve their potential, including leisure activities and living skills.

9. To design and deliver services based on specifications set by purchasers, the expectations of each young person and their families and best professional practice and judgement.

10. To work with a multidisciplinary team, rather than a functional hierarchy approach to services.

11. To demonstrate a commitment to utilise and develop, in accordance with the needs of Options Group as a whole, the skills and talents of all staff on a continuous basis.

12. To encourage initiative, innovation and individual responsibility in achieving the targets and outcomes set, within the constraints of the overall policy framework.

13. To undertake all our responsibilities with due regard to the principles of economy, probity and the need to deliver value for money to purchasers.

C.  Enabling individuals to progressively take personal control over their lives

14. To enable each person served to fulfil the desired outcomes in their personal plan, by promoting and safeguarding their physical mental and emotional welfare, through the application of clearly stated principles and the highest standards of professional practice.

15. To ensure that each person, their family or significant others are fully informed as to the nature of the powers, duties and responsibilities of those looking after that young person.

16. To, consistently, seek to become and remain the best at whatever we do and thus to achieve commercial success.