1. Care & Support –
Learning Disability Services
Key Achievements of Innovation in
Housing and Health
Lydia Bailey
Head of Learning Disability & Mental Health

2. Our Inspiration
 We provide long-term care and support to
people with a learning disability and therefore
have real potential to make a difference in
their lives
 Our core values and aims are:
- Increasing choice in housing, support and
valued activities
- Increasing the choice and control that
people have over all aspects of their lives
- Using innovation to do things differently

3. Our Impact
1. Improving health and wellbeing outcomes by:
• The effective management of long term conditions
• Increasing the number of people who have their own home and a
stable packages of support
• In one contract we have increased the number of people who are
in settled accommodation from 10 to 46 in three years
2. Offering Improved value for money by:
• The right model of housing and support
• The right staff with the right skills
• A willingness to do things differently
• In one contract we have increased the number of support hours
each week from 3653 to 4288 (+575) within the same budget
3. Working in Partnership to deliver improved outcomes:
• Working with clinicians and social care practitioners
• Working with other service provides to deliver holistic provision
• We have enabled people to remain in their own home after a
diagnosis of dementia

4. Our Inspiration – going forward
We now want to:
• Develop creative ways to engage more
effectively with our customers and
their families – including people who
are non-verbal
• Enable individual customers to be as independent as
possible
• Help customers self manage their Long Term
Conditions (diabetes, epilepsy etc.)
• Develop new and innovative housing models which
enable people to be more independent