Your Place to Live - Making it Happen. A manual, DVD and CD Rom
to help people with learning disabilities and their families plan housing
and support. Your Place to Live was created by Claire Hall and Alicia Wood,
on behalf of Notting Hill Home Ownership and Ealing Mencap. It provides
people with learning disabilities and their carers with basic information
on a full range of housing and support choices.
The manual is a simple self-assessment tool that will provide care managers
and advisors with the information they need to support individuals into
person-centred housing and support options. It takes away the need for care
managers and advisors to be experts in housing and empowers people with
learning disabilities and their carers to take the lead in making housing
and support choices.
The video shows six people with learning disabilities that have moved into
different types of accommodation with different types of support. They explain
why they moved and the options they chose, the new skills they have learned
and how moving has affected their social lives and relationships. There
are also interviews with family members who used to be the primary carers,
support workers and other people who have been involved in the moves. See
video clip of Your Place to Live
Resource Pack - Tools for Planning. The pack an invaluable resource
in helping people with learning disabilities make housing choices.
Available to order from Housing Options -
phone: 0845 4561497
e.mail: enquiries@housingoptions.org.uk
Price: £75
Housing and Support Choices - Nigel King, Maurice Harker, Claire
Hall and Andrew Young. Housing Options, 2004
Housing and Support Choices. This publication shows how it is possible
to be creative in producing real person-centred housing and support solutions
to fit the wants and needs of the disabled person whilst taking into account
their financial circumstances.
Available to order from Housing Options -
phone: 0845 4561497
e.mail: enquiries@housingoptions.org.uk
Price: £10
Housing Options Factsheet - Low-Cost Home Ownership for People with Long-Term
Disabilities (HOLD) - Claire Hall, for CSIP and Housing Options, 2008
This factsheet provides information about HOLD, HomeBuy and other low cost
home ownership options for people with long-term disabilities.
Download the factsheet.
[The factsheet is in PDF format. To view the factsheet you need the Adobe
Acrobat Reader program.
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not have it you can download it for free from Adobe]
Practical Guide to Planning for Older Family Carers - Claire Hall.
Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities, 2004
Practical Guide to Planning for Older Family Carers. This guide
provides some practical advice to carers of people with learning disabilities
who wish to plan for a time when they are no longer able to care. Contact
Claire regarding availability.
Plain English Guide to HomeBuy and Home Ownership for People with Long
Term Disabilities - Claire Hall. Care Services Improvement Team, 2006
Plain English Guide to HomeBuy and Home Ownership for People with Long
Term Disabilities. This plain English guide provides information about
HOLD, HomeBuy and other low cost home ownership options for people with
long-term disabilities. Contact
Claire regarding availability.
Making Choice Based Lettings work for People with Learning Disabilities:
A Guide for Choice Based Lettings Schemes and Landlords - Claire Hall
and Alicia Wood. Valuing People Support Team, 2008
Making Choice Based Lettings work for People with Learning Disabilities.
This guide is for local authorities, housing associations and other partners
involved in the provision of Choice Based Lettings (CBL) schemes. It has
been written following a study to understand how Choice Based Lettings works
in practice for people with learning disabilities. This guide is intended
to give practical advice on adjustments to policies and procedures which
will make schemes fully accessible for people with learning disabilities
and those who support them. Much of this advice will benefit wider client
groups such as people with literacy difficulties, those who do not use English
as a first language and those who need extra support to access the CBL system. Download
the guide.
[The guide is in PDF format. To view the guide you need the Adobe Acrobat
Reader program.
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not have it you can download it for free from Adobe]
Choice Based Lettings and People with Learning Disabilities: Report for
the Valuing People Support Team, Care Services Improvement Partnership
- Claire Hall, Wayne Hooks, Wendy Perez & Alicia Wood. Valuing People
Support Team, 2008
Choice Based Lettings and People with Learning Disabilities. This
report was commissioned by the Valuing People Support Team, part of the
Care Services Improvement Partnership, to understand how Choice Based Lettings
works in practice for people with learning disabilities. Download
the report.
[The report is in PDF format. To view the report you need the Adobe Acrobat
Reader program.
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not have it you can download it for free from Adobe]
Choice Based Lettings: A guide to choosing a home through the council
for people with Learning Disabilities, their families and supporters
- Claire Hall and Alicia Wood. Valuing People Support Team, 2008
Choice Based Lettings. This is a pictorial guide written following
a study to understand how Choice Based Lettings works in practice for people
with learning disabilities. It provides practical information about CBL,
how schemes work, what to expect when applying for housing through the scheme,
how to get the best from the scheme and what to do if you feel that your
disability has not been taken into account. Download
the guide.
[The guide is in PDF format. To view the guide you need the Adobe Acrobat
Reader program.
Acrobat Reader is installed on nearly all systems by default - if you do
not have it you can download it for free from Adobe]
