Residential care and support
For some learning disabled people, the best way to live their life their way is by living independently in their local communities. But for others, residential care might suit them better. We support learning disabled people with a range of needs to make sure that wherever they live, they can live the best life possible.
We adapt our residential care homes to meet people’s specific needs. This means using things like specialist equipment and personalised technology. These tools help us make sure that each person we support can live as independently as possible.
When we’re developing person-centred packages, we want to make sure that they’re unique to each person. So we will always work in partnership with the person we support, family members and health professionals.
Involvement and independence
We encourage everyone we support to take part in as many everyday activities as they want to – whatever their support needs. That could mean:
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Deciding how their home is run.
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Choosing their staff.
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Decorating their room, their way.
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Getting involved in the community.
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Enjoying leisure activities.
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Working to achieve specific goals, such as completing a training course or getting a job.
We follow the social model of disability and support people to take control of their own lives. Sometimes, this can be as straightforward as developing skills that other people take for granted. For example, supporting people to eat and drink on their own. It’s all about giving people as much opportunity to live with independence and choice as possible.
Leisure
Having a learning disability shouldn’t prevent you from doing the things you want to do. People we support have the opportunity to get involved in all kinds of sports and hobbies. Whether it’s learning a new skill, or enjoying a few nights away on holiday, we enable the people we support to spend time the way they choose to.
We develop relationships with local clubs and centres so that we can make the most of activities on offer in the community. And when we can’t find opportunities, we create them on-site. It could be gardening, computer skills, crafts, learning an instrument or karaoke – if we can make it happen, we will. In some parts of the country we even run specialist projects, like our friendship service, Luv2meetU.
You can read about some of the things the people we support have been up to on our blog.
Specialist services
We’ve built some specialist residential care homes to meet specific needs. At these services, we support our colleagues to receive specialist training focussed on topics like:
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Dementia care.
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End of life support.
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Supporting individuals with profound and complex needs.
Standards
We take the standard of care and support we offer very seriously. All our residential care homes are registered with and run to meet the fundamental standards set out by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which regulates care provision in England.
See the ratings our registered services have received from the CQC.