Learning Disability Today, October 2011, pp.36-37.
Publisher:
Pavilion
Place of publication:
Hove
North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus is undertaking a project to reshape the local market for services for people with learning disabilities. The project brings together commissioners and providers in a new way to provide better, more person-centred outcomes for service users. The principle objective is to create new opportunities for people to be supported to lead their own lives in their own homes as an alternative to institutional care. Commissioners are focusing on 2 groups, those already in care homes and young people in transition who would go into care homes if there was no other option. The project has established a collaborative partnership with 5 providers. Progress and Inclusion were appointed as the project’s housing providers, and Care UK, Creative Support, and Lifeways were appointed as the support service providers. The trust will collect information and evidence through a new outcome-based commissioning process to ensure that all the providers are delivering better outcomes at lower cost. The first tangible outcome of these strategic collaborations is that this year, for the first time, no transition pathways have led to residential care.
North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus is undertaking a project to reshape the local market for services for people with learning disabilities. The project brings together commissioners and providers in a new way to provide better, more person-centred outcomes for service users. The principle objective is to create new opportunities for people to be supported to lead their own lives in their own homes as an alternative to institutional care. Commissioners are focusing on 2 groups, those already in care homes and young people in transition who would go into care homes if there was no other option. The project has established a collaborative partnership with 5 providers. Progress and Inclusion were appointed as the project’s housing providers, and Care UK, Creative Support, and Lifeways were appointed as the support service providers. The trust will collect information and evidence through a new outcome-based commissioning process to ensure that all the providers are delivering better outcomes at lower cost. The first tangible outcome of these strategic collaborations is that this year, for the first time, no transition pathways have led to residential care.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, person-centred care, social care provision, service transitions, community care, collaboration, commissioning;