Step Through Residential Care for Adults with Complex Learning Disabilities

Adults and Cultural services work in partnership with people, their families/unpaid carers, advocates, and providers to offer safe, caring, and enabling environments that respect identity, culture, and choice and help people achieve their personal outcomes.

For a proportion of working age adults (18–65), a time limited residential step through placement is the least restrictive way to stabilise, recover, and progress to a community setting or in cases where this is not possible individuals have a pathway into long-term services such as residential services. This setting will allow for an assessment in an environment which lends itself to assessing individuals with complex and/or specialist care and support needs which may be associated with high risk, historic risk and unpredictability.

The service will provide short-term, outcome focused residential step through support for working age adults (18–65) with specialist and complex care and support needs, whose needs can be met in a 24/7 staffed, enabling environment that promotes:

Recovery, rehabilitation, and reablement.

Development of independent living skills

Stabilisation following crisis or breakdown, preventing hospital admission/readmission.

Progression to a less restrictive setting (residential, supported living, family, or own tenancy).

Improved health and wellbeing, community connection, and personal autonomy.

Assessment of social care and accommodation needs.

The Contract includes the provision of accommodation as well as the support service.