Supported housing scheme for people with learning and physical disabilities


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The new housing development on Stag Lane, Roehampton, will provide ten self-contained homes respectively, staffed 24 hours a day. The other 11 flats will be council homes for estate residents who wish to downsize, which will free up homes for other households in need.

A specialist provider of care and support services is being sought by the council for two new schemes, (Stag House and one near Wandsworth Common) according to a report going before Wandsworth Council's Adult Care and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee and to the Executive on 12 and 18 September.

The schemes are thought to be among the only supported living schemes being built in London by a council, and are expected to be completed from late 2018.

Cllr Paul Ellis, Cabinet Member for Adult Care and Health, said: “I’m proud to say that Wandsworth is one of only a few authorities that builds its own supported housing for vulnerable residents.

“Supported housing not only enables residents to live more independently, it also relieves pressure on the NHS, and other councils should certainly follow suit.”

The council’s supported housing programme, running since 2009 in Wandsworth, has seen four such developments built so far, helping to promote independent living for vulnerable residents and local alternatives instead of placements in residential care facilities that may be outside of the borough.

September 8, 2017