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Page 1: Finding a place to live Dorchester housing event

Finding a place to live

Dorchester housing event

Page 2: Finding a place to live Dorchester housing event

Why housing matters

• Most young adults leave home ...

• … but many young people with learning disabilities don’t

• Better to plan now …• … than have an

emergency move• Housing is the key to

independence and choice for all of us

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Finding a place to live

Housing:• Renting • Home ownership• How do you find it?Support• How much• Where from• How do you find it?

Examples• Individual (rented

cluster flat)• Shared housing• Shared ownership• All with family

involvement

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Housing options

Rented housing• Social renting

(council or housing association)

• Private renting• Private renting

from family, Trust or charity

Home ownership• Outright ownership• Shared ownership• With govt funding• With family funding

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Support options

Commissioned by local authority?

• Less work but may have less choice

Individual budget?• Choose your own

support provider• Or employ staff

direct

Level of support?• Anything from a

few hours a week to 24/7 & 365 days

• Staff work with other residents in shared housing

• 1-1 in individual housing

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Housing and support: advantages

• Housing and the support service are separate so you can change one without the other

• You can choose where and how you live, who you live with, and become more independent

• Tenancy, or home ownership, gives rights, responsibilities, a stake in the local community

• You get more money: benefits for housing costs, council tax, living expenses & disability

• Paid work becomes possible if you want to – in rented housing - but problems with ownership options & benefits system

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What sort of housing?

Living with others• In shared

supported housing • With a support

tenant • With a family

(family placement, self-contained annexe)

Living on your own• In your own flat,

house or bungalow• In cluster flats or

extra-care (a number of flats together)

• In a dispersed network (like KeyRing)

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Housing: sharing or living alone?

Company and friendsHelp from other tenants Staff in the houseOrganised activitiesBUT risk of not getting on well with others, may not be able to choose new tenants

Independence, privacy – your own front doorIn charge – more freedom Individual support tailored to suit needsBUT risk of loneliness, boredom

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Support and activities - essential for successful

supported living

College courses

Holidays

Social networks

Worship

Paid work

Voluntary work

Sports, leisure activities

Relationships

What else would you need?

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My Housing Option Plan1. Start with the person: ideas for future?

what good at? what need help with? 2. Do they want to move? How soon?3. Who else knows them & can help with

ideas, information? Family? Friends? Professionals? Does everyone agree?

4. Choosing a home: sharing, own front door, owning or renting?

5. Support options – level and types of support based on needs and wishes

6. Writing down the ideas and how to make things happen – who will do what

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Housing: rent? buy? area?

• Renting – usually housing associations

• Shared ownership – part-rent, part-buy

• Choice of area – quiet or lively?

• Near: shops, buses?• work, college?• friends, family?

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Alison: individual flat in “cluster”

• Self-contained modern flat: bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom• Limited hours from on-site support staff for all tenants (Knightstone)• 12 flats in block• Central location• Near shops etc• Tenancy rights

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Alison: support service• Service “brokered” by family • Alison and family chose United

Response (new provider SGlos)• New team, 3 core staff• Alison and family involved in

recruitment & training• Flexible contract, average 30

hours a week, annualised hours

• Our choice to have contract with United Response managed by SGlos Council

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In her flat and

community

Cooking, shopping Money,

bills

Medication reminders

Visits to doctor, dentist

Support with voluntary work

Social activities

Safety at home and in community

What other help, care or support would you need?

30 hours a week support for:

Housework and managing the flat

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Dean: shared house• Brand new four bedroomed

detached house in Portishead.• Golden Lane Housing (Mencap)

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Shared house

• Four young men

• All different needs.

• All same sort of age.

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Support• Brandon Trust – the 8

parents’ choice• New team, 7 support staff• 4 YP involved in

recruitment• Varied levels of support to

suit individual needs.• One overnight sleep in• Contract managed by

North Somerset Council

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In the house and

community

Cooking, shopping Money,

bills

Medication reminders, doctor, dentist

College

Safety …

Support needed for:

Housework and managing the house

Life skills

Sports

Theatre

MusicalsConcerts

ICT

Employment

Train spotting

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Home ownership – resale:2-bed older or newer houses

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Home ownership – new build

Can be wheelchair accessible

Can be individual or in a group of flats or bungalows together

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Home ownership examples

• Andy: autistic spectrum, in shared housing • about to buy his own semi-detached 2-bed

house through Advance (housing association) using HOLD (Home Ownership for people with Long-term Disabilities)

• Pay rent to Advance (Housing Benefit)• Pay mortgage to building society (interest

only) covered by Income Support• Support contract through local authority• 24/7 support 1-1 reducing at night over

time

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Home ownership examples

• Jilly: physical disablility and communication needs, uses wheelchair

• in respite care after being made homeless when landlord of private rented shared house gave notice

• about to buy her own new-build 2-bed flat through local housing association using HOLD

• Rent and mortgage as for Andy• Employing own PAs with Individual Budget

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