Supported Living Q&As

How do you go about ensuring the care budget from a Local Authority will be sufficient to pay for Supported Living housing needs and all care/access to the community activities that our young person will need when he leaves residential college?

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“Setting a care budget – how do you go about ensuring the care budget from a Local Authority will be sufficient to pay for Supported Living housing needs and all care/access to the community activities that our young person (22) will need when he leaves residential college. We have heard of a ‘Personal Health Budget’ […]

How do you go about ensuring the care budget from a Local Authority will be sufficient to pay for Supported Living housing needs and all care/access to the community activities that our young person will need when he leaves residential college? Read More »

If – say – three good friends, persons A, B and C, with special needs want to live together in supported living with a support package in place, one of those friends, C, is from out of area ie another council, can the out of area council refuse to pay the care needs of C after he/she moves into the house in new council area?

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The answers to the first and second questions all depend, on the rules of continuity versus continuing ordinary residence. A move into supported living out of area is able to carry with it the responsibility of the previous council, but ONLY if they put the magic words on the care plan. Those words are that the person’s needs are needs

If – say – three good friends, persons A, B and C, with special needs want to live together in supported living with a support package in place, one of those friends, C, is from out of area ie another council, can the out of area council refuse to pay the care needs of C after he/she moves into the house in new council area? Read More »

My Council has said no to funding our son’s care in a property we own. They have said ‘they are not setting up any further supported housings through families’ properties’ indicating that our son must go into supported living in another area away from everything he knows locally and is familiar with. Can the council do this? Can my son not choose where he live? The Council said they will only ‘support C in the home with drop in support’ ! Is there a process to appeal this?

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My son with Down Syndrome wants to move into supported accommodation locally with his 2 friends. He is familiar with area: he can catch specific local buses, walk everywhere ie to gym and special needs club, and dance. As parents we own a private house locally that we can rent to a housing association who

My Council has said no to funding our son’s care in a property we own. They have said ‘they are not setting up any further supported housings through families’ properties’ indicating that our son must go into supported living in another area away from everything he knows locally and is familiar with. Can the council do this? Can my son not choose where he live? The Council said they will only ‘support C in the home with drop in support’ ! Is there a process to appeal this? Read More »

Are tenants included in those covered by the extension of deemed ordinary residence to supported living and shared lives?

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According to DoH, Yes. The concept of “deemed” ordinary residence which already existed in social care law was extended to a broader range of accommodation by the Care Act 2014. That concept is the exact opposite of the ordinary rule – that is, one is deemed to remain o/r with one’s old authority DESPITE one’s

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