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No place like home: a DVD about people with learning disabilities living independently
- Authors:
- BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET LEARNING DISABILITY NETWORKS, LEWIS Michael, (Producers)
- Publisher:
- Your Say advocacy
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- DVD
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
In this film people with learning disabilities share their experiences of living independently. The individuals featured live in a variety of different settings and are supported to live independently in many different ways.
Specialised supported housing: guidance for local government and NHS commissioners
- Authors:
- SKIDMORE Clare, COPEMAN Ian
- Publisher:
- Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Place of publication:
- London
This is guidance for local government and NHS commissioners about a category of supported housing referred to as ‘Specialised Supported Housing’ (SSH), particularly lease-based models of SSH. The overarching purpose of the guidance is to support commissioners to protect and promote the best interests of people with a learning disability and autistic people, and other people with support needs, in the course of commissioning solutions with and for people who might otherwise not be able to live in housing which supports their health and wellbeing. Supported housing is typically defined as a housing service where housing, support and/or care services are provided to help people to live as independently as possible. SSH is a sub-category of supported housing that is exempt from usual social rent setting requirements as set out in the Rent Standard (these are requirements for registered providers in England in relation to social rent setting) and the Government’s Policy statement on rents for social housing. Specifically, this guidance for commissioners covers: how best to ensure that SSH, including the current lease-based model of SSH, works well for the people living in such supported housing; considerations about the sustainability of existing lease-based SSH schemes; considerations about entering into new lease-based and other SSH arrangements. (Edited publisher abstract)
Quality in social care: achieving excellence in supported living services
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Place of publication:
- London
In this film we see several examples of excellence in supported living settings. The film shows people with learning disabilities and mental health problems finding employment, developing skills, and becoming more independent, and looks at the role of social care staff in supporting people to improve their lives. The examples are analysed by a panel of service users and social care academics and they discuss how the services demonstrate concepts of excellence in social care in their day-to-day work. This film was previously available under the title 'Defining excellence: residential settings: supported living' which was revised in 2014.
Defining excellence: excellence in residential settings - supported living
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Place of publication:
- London
In this film we see several examples of excellence in supported living settings. The film shows people with learning disabilities and mental health problems finding employment, developing skills, and becoming more independent, and looks at the role of social care staff in supporting people to improve their lives. The examples are analysed by a panel of service users and social care academics and they discuss how the services demonstrate concepts of excellence in social care in their day-to-day work. This film has been revised and is now available under the title 'Quality in social care: achieving excellence in supported living services'.
Find Me Good Care
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Place of publication:
- London
Find Me Good Care is a website to help people to make choices about care and support for themselves or other adults in England. This includes care and support at home and in a residential setting. The site combines advice and information about choosing care with a comparable database of services. It also allows you to create your own Good Care Planner online so that you can save all the information that you find most useful in one place. The site has three main sections: a care planner to help plan care and support for yourself or someone else; a search facility to allow you to search for care and support services across England; information on paying for care and care costs. The site is developed and managed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence.