Respite, Shortbreaks, Community Provision, Live in Care, Shared Lives
*Working age adults BI chart
Shared Lives commissioning intentions
- Offers a flexible, community-based alternative to residential care or supported living, enabling people to live in a family or household setting with personalised support.
- We are looking for more people in Warwickshire who may be interested in opening up their home to support adults with disabilities, mental health needs or autistic adults.
- Supports people to build independence, confidence, relationships and everyday living skills while staying connected to their local community.
- Can provide long-term support, short breaks or transitional support, increasing personalised local options for people and carers.
- People with a spare room and time to support someone can register their interest through the Coventry and Warwickshire Shared Lives Scheme. Full training, ongoing support and a paid allowance are provided, with further information available on Warwickshire County Council’s Shared Lives webpage.
Live-in Care commissioning intentions
- Live-in care provides personalised support within a person's own home, enabling people to remain independent while receiving day and overnight support where required.
- Live-in care forms part of Warwickshire's Working Age Adults (WAA) Framework, which runs until 2033. We are not seeking to increase the number of live-in care providers or reopen the framework. Our focus is on working with existing framework providers.
- We see opportunities to increase the use of live-in care where it can provide a safe, person-centred and cost-effective alternative to supported living, particularly for people who require waking night or overnight support.
- Live-in care should promote independence, choice and control by enabling people to remain in their own homes and communities and reducing reliance on more restrictive forms of support.
Day opportunities, short breaks and respite commissioning intentions
- We want to work with existing WAA Framework providers to strengthen flexible, personalised and outcome-focused day opportunities, short breaks and respite provision.
- Provision should promote independence, community inclusion, wellbeing, friendship networks, meaningful occupation and access to mainstream community activities wherever possible.
- We want a broader range of personalised options that support individuals and unpaid carers, including flexible short breaks that help prevent crisis, reduce the risk of placement breakdown and avoid unnecessary admission.
- Priority areas include support for autistic adults, people with complex needs, young people preparing for adulthood, and people who would benefit from more flexible alternatives to traditional building-based provision.