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

Contact details:

Email or telephone:timwillis@warwickshire.gov.u

k01926 74514007786 171437