Delivering Personalised Care and Support Services in Extra Care Housing at Vernon Gardens, Brighton

This Housing LIN Case study no 58 the summary of how a group of prospective tenants with a wide range of physical disabilities and some associated learning disabilities were helped to develop their own personalised model of care and support within a 10-flat extra care housing scheme in Brighton funded by the Department of Health and managed by The Guinness Trust, a leading housing association. It outlines some of the key moments and important milestones, and in doing so charts the opportunities presented, the challenges and anxieties tenants faced, and the difficulties they overcame to develop this model.