How we help adults with learning disabilities

In supported living, it is important to encourage adults with learning disabilities to be as independent as possible. That means using staff to teach service users to do things for themselves, deploying staff effectively, and only when needed.

What about nights? Do we really need waking night staff or could we move to sleep-in? If nights make low demands on staff, can we manage the remaining risks with telecare and roving night staff? Just Checking will provide objective evidence for a change to the care package.

In our Evidence section, see how Just Checking can help you deliver significant cost efficiencies in supported living, whilst ensuring that staff and telecare are deployed in the most effective way and allowing service users to be as independent as possible.

Highlights:

Dorset County Council made savings of over £100,000 on its first 10 assessments using Just Checking. Read the report here.

Warrington Borough Council talks about its successful telecare pilot “Efficiencies and Service Improvement in Supported Living”. You can download Warrington’s main learning points and a transcript of the talk.

Just Checking Multi-Person is designed to monitor activity in a shared home, where service users have their own bedroom, and share living rooms.

Just Checking Professional is designed to monitor a single service user living alone, with care staff there some of the time.