A Positive Behaviour Support Plan is a CARE PLAN.

A Positive Behaviour Support Plan is created to help understand and support children, young people and adults who have a Learning Disability and display behaviour that others find challenging.

A Positive Behaviour Support Plan is an individualised CARE PLAN which is available to those who provide care and support.

A Positive Behaviour Support Plan should be informed by functional assessments. People and their families should be as fully involved as possible in developing and reviewing the plan.

A Positive Behaviour Support Plan should include the following elements:

• proactive strategies designed to improve quality of life and remove conditions that promote behaviour that challenges
• identification of environmental adaptations and strategies to support the development of new skills
• preventative (calming) strategies in response to early signs of distress
• reactive strategies to manage behaviours that are not preventable.

For further information on Positive Behaviour Support Plans and the wider positive behaviour framework, see the PBS Academy website.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	Positive Behaviour Support Plans