We will do our best to help you find autism residential, supported living, or in-home support services.
Why use Living Autism?
The Living Autism team will –
- Listen to your requirements
- Offer you an independent service
- Support you in finding the best choice of bespoke autism services focused on specified needs
- Validate autism services within the Living Autism network
- Support you through local authority processes
Some of the service providers within our network also support people with conditions compatible with autism-type support, such as brain injury, learning disabilities with complex needs and some mental health conditions.
Our first telephone or email response to your enquiry is FREE OF CHARGE. If you need more in-depth support please scroll down for our Support Packages.
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Our support packages
You can make an enquiry by using our contact form above. Our first telephone or email response to your query is FREE OF CHARGE.
If you need more in-depth support we offer the following packages – blue, green or orange.
| Children – up to age 25 |
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| What is included | £495 | £995 | £1,495 |
| Assistance with putting together papers for EHCPs | √ | √ | √ |
| Assistance with papers for tribunals | √ | √ | |
| Attending a virtual multi-disciplinary tribunal meeting (face-to-face cost is an agreed extra) | √ | ||
| Adults – from age 19 |
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| What is included | £495 | £995 | £1,495 |
| Assistance with understanding the process for Adult Social Care Assessments leading to supported living or residential placements and the complaints process if necessary | √ | √ | √ |
| Assistance in preparing for a multi-disciplinary meeting regarding adult placements | √ | √ | |
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General information on adult autism residential, supported living or support in the home services
If you are looking for autism residential or supported living services please read the information below on the different types of accommodation and support available. For our support packages in helping you to look for services please scroll up.
The Right Accommodation and Support
Each autistic individual will be affected by the condition in different ways. The level of support needed by an individual with autism will vary according to their condition.
If you are currently living at home and want to remain there it may be possible to access more support to help you do so, find out more about in home help and carer allowances for your family.
Residential Care Services
A residential care setting provides a complete and whole service including accommodation, activities and care support. A local authority makes a contract with a Service Provider specifying what is provided. The home is usually up and running and can be viewed in advance. The home is inspected regularly by the Care Quality Commission against a range of standards.
In this setting individuals might not be able to have a say in who else lives in that setting and they are also unlikely to have a say in the future or direction of the service. If a placement breaks down, the service provider has the right to end the placement. An individual would be required to contribute most of their benefits to the local authority who pay for the service placement.
“Wrap Around” Personalised Support: using the third-party option
A “wrap-around” service enables you to have a dedicated team of staff around you in your own home. This is achieved with a third party organisation.
Third party organisations can work with a client in selecting support workers that meet the profile that the client wants – matching interests and personalities. The organisation will then train them to meet the competence of care in a very personalised way specific to that individual. In some organisations the staff recruited are only contracted to support that person, creating a personalised wrap around support. encouraging continuity and consistency in care.
Where a third-party is used, an organisation independent of the person, the Local Authority and NHS commissioners can hold some or all of the money on the person’s behalf. The Third-party organisation can also support the person and their family to achieve the outcomes agreed in their personalised care and support plan using the available budget in a tailored and flexible way.
A person can employ people they know and, in some cases, this can include family members living in the same property. However, the funding body (NHS/ Local Authority) must be satisfied that a service from that family member living in the same property is necessary to meet the needs of the person receiving care.
Third party organisations are particularly helpful when a person:
- does not want to manage a direct payment
- does not wish to take on employer responsibilities for personal assistants/support workers (a third-party legal employer)
- lacks capacity or is otherwise not in a position to manage their own budget
- needs specialist or very tailored support that most providers are not in a position to deliver
The third-party organisation can be contractually and financially responsible for the care and support, and will be the employer for any personal assistants engaged to support the person. The arrangement should enable the person and their family to have as much input into the delivery of their personalised care and support plan as they choose. This can include playing a role in:
- recruitment and training
- planning of rotas
- day-to-day management of a personal assistant team.
Third party options enable the person and their family to agree, in discussion with health and/or other care professionals, the provider that is best able to meet their needs.
A third party can provide all the benefit of choice and control a person may want.
Home Care (Domiciliary Care)
When care is provided in your own home by one or more care workers or nurses it is called home care or domiciliary care. The carers provide assistance to enable continuation of daily living, helping to maintain personal independence, comfort and contact with friends and family in the local community. The care provided is very flexible and could just be for a few hours or could be 24-hour care and can be on a temporary, intermittent or long term basis. Carers will provide help with preparing meals, bathing and dressing. Care can be arranged through local authorities who will be able to send care workers to care for people in their own homes either directly, or through agencies. You can also arrange home care yourself through nursing agencies or through associations for homecare providers, eg the UKHCA.
Supported Living Services
Supported living is for people who are no longer going to be living with their family, but who need regular and substantial support. In the supported living model, the most important thing is that each individual has their own tenancy. They rent their accommodation, usually from a Housing Association. As a tenant they have more rights than in a residential care setting and cannot be made to leave their home. Individuals are supported in making choices about their day-to-day living. The emphasis is on support, whereas often in residential care, the emphasis is on direct care. Individuals can be supported in their personal care, as well as with accessing community facilities and with their budgets. A Care Provider organisation provides the support needed. The individual can choose who provides their care. Some people with profound and complex disabilities and conditions are successfully supported in Supported Living settings. Individuals can claim Local Housing Allowance for rent and various benefits to cover the cost of their care such as Disability Living Allowance.
Temporary or ‘Respite’ Care
Respite care is short-term care which is intended to provide a family or a carer with a break from daily routines and stresses. It is geared to the specific needs of the individual and their carer/s. It can be provided in the individual’s own home or in a variety of external settings. The breaks do not usually last for longer than three months of continuous care. For financial help towards respite care, an individual would need a community care assessment to assess their needs.
There are different types of respite including residential respite care, emergency respite care, domiciliary care and day centre care. All of these types of care allow the carer to have a short break whilst knowing that the individual’s needs are being met.