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Learning Disability Partnership Board
A Place to Live – Supported Living Update
16 November 2011
Tim Willis Strategic Commissioning Project
Lead
Background• Few people with Learning Disabilities have
choice and control over where and who they live with
• 300+ people in Warwickshire are living in residential care
• Approximately 75 people meet the profile for Supported Living
• People with Learning Disabilities have told us they prefer supported living to residential care
• Many people are living with elderly carers or relatives who could share their home
Current Position• We need to change the balance
• There is not very much Housing with care for people with Learning Disabilities
• Some areas have no Supported Living
• Partnerships with Housing teams are growing
• Working with Housing Associations and private landlords
• Delivery of Care and Choice Programme
How services will be delivered
• Single Tenders• Housing Partnership Framework - if
appropriate to lifestyle• Working with Independent Sector• Reshaping Residential Care Services• Remodelling Sheltered Housing• Current Housing stock• Other Market Opportunities• Examples are:
Kingston House
• Available since September• Part of Bede Village in Bedworth• 10 new one-bedroom flats• 5 people already moved in• Care and support available 24/7• Use of other on site facilities• Similar schemes to follow
Recent tender
Two specific sites:• Wharf Street, Warwick• Rear of Bidford Fire Station• Tender to be approved
tomorrow• Up to 30 x 1 and 2 bed flats• Contract award in December• More sites to follow
KeyRing schemes• What is KeyRing?• Supported Living in the
Community• Up to 9 people supported in any
neighbourhood• Support worker based in the
community• Two schemes due in 2012• One scheme in Nuneaton
already• More schemes to follow
What do we Want?
• Countywide Provision
• Services changed as appropriate
• Less Residential Care
• More People living in their own home, not in a home
• People and Places approach
• Progression during Recession
Impact of Recession
• Cuts to Budget/Capital Funding• Reduced rental income or cost
of land• More Council land available• More Developer land available• Wider options for programme
delivery
Consultation• Customers, relatives and carers• Housing and Care Providers and
Developers• Primary Care Trust – Health Service• District/Borough Council colleagues• Wider Public• Councillors• Staff and unions
Conclusion
Use opportunities to work with the housing market to:
• Maximise independence of all• Increase individual choice and
control• Meet care and support needs more
effectively• Use what we already have