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.
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 as follows:
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 TCP’s include Local Authorities Transforming Care Partnerships 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.
A Measure of Success - evaluation of extra care housing for people with learning disabilities
Housing LIN Report - The lessons from 10 projects to provide extra care housing specifically for people with a learning disability should be of interest to those involved in re-modelling services, campus closures or trying to create new provision for older people with a learning disability.
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
Latest Resources
- We Say: Our place, Our Space - The evidence on disabled people’s housing issues from Scotland’s Disabled People’s Summit
- How do you involve people with lived experience in your decisions?
- Housing Choices Discussion Paper 4: Policy and Practice Recommendations
- Briefing on the Law Commission Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty report
- Supported Living for Adults with Learning Disabilities Service Re-design
- Kent’s Learning Disability Home Design Principles
- Going Digital
- Learning disability housing needs analysis
- Local support for people with a learning disability
- Housing LIN Spring 2017 Newsletter