Supported living

Housing with support is often called Supported Living or Independent Living.

What both of these terms mean is that a person has their own home and support is put in place to help them live independently. Supported living means that you are supported to live in the way that you want.

This could mean that you are supported for a few hours a week, everyday, overnight or 24 hours a day.

• The support is carefully planned to meet your needs to live independently.
• Supported living means that you are supported to live in the way that you want.
• Your housing and support is built around you rather than you fitting in to a service.
• You choose who you live with (if anyone).
• You choose where you live.
• You choose who supports you and how you are supported.

In supported living, people are supported to take control of their life.

Supported living is not just for people who are 'able'. Anyone, regardless of their ability, can be supported to live in their own home with the right support.

There are some standards called REACH that tell you how to check if your service is really supported living. You can get them from Paradigm website.

For Information & Advice contact the Central Advice and Duty Team Telephone 0151 606 2006.

The team are able to provide general information and advice and where appropriate take referrals for Adult Social Services for detailed enquires and requests for a service.