What matters to me on my plan
A single page to prepare a child for a meeting about them. Their name in the middle, eight empty boxes around it, and nothing filled in for them.
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What it is for
Children are discussed at conferences, reviews and planning meetings in which they are the subject and rarely the author. This sheet is preparation: what matters to me, what I need, my story — written before the meeting, by them.
The boxes are deliberately blank. There are no printed categories to tick, because a printed category is a professional’s idea of what should matter. A line at the bottom records who completed it with them, which matters when it is read out by someone else.
Using it in a session
- Do it well before the meeting. Not in the car park. A child needs time to change their mind about what goes in the boxes.
- Leave boxes empty if they want to. Eight is an invitation, not a target. Three things a child means beats eight they filled in to be helpful.
- Write it in their words. If you are scribing, scribe. Tidying a child’s phrasing into professional language is how their voice disappears.
- Fill in “completed with”. Whoever reads it in the meeting should know who was in the room, because that changes how it should be weighed.
- Agree what happens to it. Who will see this? Will it be read out? A child who knows the answer writes more honestly than one who does not.
This is a child’s account of what matters to them. It belongs in the meeting as evidence in its own right, not as something to be summarised into your report.
What is on the sheet
- ME — what is important to me, at the centre
- Eight open boxes around it
- Our plan, our needs, our story
- Name and date
- Completed with — who helped
- A closing line: this plan is about you
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