Housing and Learning Disability: Transforming care and support
The Housing LIN is committed to supporting our members, commissioners and providers improve the independent living choices of people with learning disabilities. We have been working with NHS England and NHS Improvement Learning Disability and Autism Programme to develop their local and regional housing partnerships to increase supply. For more about how we can help localities develop a better range of housing choices, download our brochure.
There are an estimated 930,000 adults with a learning disability in England, 129,000 of whom receive local authority social care support. These pages provide resources, references, tools and outline good practice to ensure that people with learning disabilities and autism have increased choices and quality of where they live. They are segmented into key themes to enable you to navigate around the topics and access relevant resources more easily.
Finally, if you or your organisation require training, we offer training for people who want to take their knowledge about Autism a step further. The course aims to really put you in touch with the issues faced by People with Autism, their parents and carers; and to offer ways of working with them that will both improve your knowledge and increase your confidence. Learn more at: Autism – some different perspectives or email us at training@housinglin.org.uk (opens new window).
Please note, following government guidance on social distancing, we are currently exploring how to offer training services remotely.
For bespoke advice to help your organisation draw on the lessons highlighted on these pages and/or to talk through how the Housing LIN can support with your operational and/or strategical plans, please contact us at consultancy@housinglin.org.uk or visit our consultancy pages.
Key Learning Disabilities Subjects
Personal stories
A collection of personal stories and examples of everyday experiences of people with a learning disability about their housing and care circumstances.
Transforming Care
A selection of housing related resources for NHS England and NHS Improvement Learning Disability and Autism Programme leads to help plan or commission services for people with a learning disability.
Improving housing choice and supply
A range of documents that help set out the housing choices and supply of mainstream and specialist housing that can enable people with a learning disability live independently.
Funding
Information on sources of capital and revenue funding to develop and manage accommodation for people with a learning disability – need access to HCA and HOLD as well as NHS capital.
Design and technology
Resources on how better design and the use of technology enabled care can support people with a learning disability live independently.
Legislation
Information on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the legislative framework for deprivation of liberty and adult safeguarding.
Valuing People Now
This section provides ‘legacy’ information of the then Government's vision for people with a learning disability, across a range of services based on four key principles of rights, independence, choice, and inclusion.
Directory of DH funded schemes
A record of schemes funded by the Department of Health’s capital programme, including independent living for people with a learning disability or autism.
Key resources
Department of Health Winterbourne View Review: Concordat
The Housing LIN has signed up to this important concordat and is committed to publish information that support our members to provide good quality care across health, housing and social care.
Planning and Commissioning Housing for People with Learning Disabilities - A Toolkit for Local Authorities
The Valuing People Team at the DH and Housing Options have produced a concise toolkit for councils and providers to help plan and commission wider housing choices for people with a learning disability.
The need for community: A study of housing for adults with learning disabilities
This report from the Centre for Social Justice analyses to what degree the current system of residential care and supported living schemes offers autonomy and control to adults with learning disabilities.
Making the funding system of supported housing work for all people with a learning disability: Specialised Supported Housing
This report commissioned by Mencap and written by the Housing LIN, provides a useful insight into Specialist Supported Housing by drawing on examples of good practice that can inform the debate around funding for supported housing into the future.
Building the right home - transforming care for people with a learning disability, autism or both
Jointly by NHS England, the LGA and ADASS, this new housing guidance supports NHS and local authority commissioners to expand the housing options available for this group of people who form part of the Transforming Care Programme.
Hospitals are not Homes: Transforming Care. Better care and support for people with learning disabilities and autism in England after Winterbourne
A booklet by The National Forum of People with Learning Disabilities and the National Valuing Families Forum
Supporting Transforming Care - Building the Right Home
The Housing LIN is committed to supporting you improve the independent living choices of people with learning disabilities. Learn about how we can help localities develop a better range of housing choices.
Latest Resources
- Technology-enabled care should be central to good care – and the Social Care White Paper
- Learning Disability and Autism Housing Network Charter
- Exploring how technology can be truly integrated into adult social care
- Research on Digital Exclusion since the Covid-19 pandemic 2020
- Housing to 2040
- Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all
- The Impact of Analogue to Digital Migration on Technology Enabled Care
- Keeping Connected and Staying Well
- Research into Part M Access to and Use of Buildings
- A Forecast for accessible homes 2020