EC: PEC - Capacity Building - Health and Wellbeing

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EC: PEC - Capacity Building - Health and Wellbeing

Guidance in this document is not approved for use unless you view it in PACE.

This article provides guidance for early childhood partners and planner delegates on:

• how to complete the Personal and Environmental Circumstances (PEC) case

• capacity building questions relating to health and wellbeing.

You must consider the role you deliver to support a successful completion of the PEC so that the Typical Support Package (TSP) best reflects the participant and their family’s actual circumstances and need.

Recent updates

October 2023

Current guidance

Before you start

You have read and understood:

• Operational Guideline - Disability-related health supports.

Additional knowledge articles

For information on the PEC case – Capacity building questions relating to other areas, go to:

• EC: PEC – Capacity Building – Early childhood supports overview and EC: PEC –

Capacity Building – How to complete early childhood supports questions for

information on early childhood supports, including intensive early childhood supports

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EC: PEC – Capacity Building – Regulated restrictive practices

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Table 1 - Health and wellbeing

The table gives some examples on how you may answer the free text fields in the PEC Capacity Building questions for health and wellbeing.

Describe the child’s support needs, for each relevant support area. If the information is available in a report, add the name, profession, date of report/s. Reports must be uploaded into PACE.

The free text fields have character limits. If more space is required, add the information to ‘internal note’ in the Activity log. Please use the following tables as a guide only.

PEC questions Examples for free text fields

Dysphagia support: Mia’s dysphagia supports include difficulties managing swallowing secretions and requires full supervision when eating and drinking. She has a mealtime management plan. Refer to Does this person need report: Sue Haigh (dietitian). Report date: 12/6/2022. support to improve their Other, please specify: health and wellbeing? Jack has limited mobility and is unable to reposition himself in bed. He requires support for wound and pressure care. Refer to report: Dr Jim Punji (paediatrician Children’s Hospital). Report date: 22/8/2022.

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Topics

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Case names

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Ownership

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