How to win: Step Through Residential Care for Adults with Complex Learning Disabilities

About this contract

Adults and Cultural services work in partnership with people, their families/unpaid carers, advocates, and providers to offer safe, caring, and enabling environments that respect identity, culture, and choice and help people achieve their personal outcomes. For a proportion of working age adults (18–65), a time limited residential step through placement is the least restrictive way to stabilise, recover, and progress to a community setting or in cases where this is not possible individuals have a pathway into long-term services such as residential services. This setting will allow for an assessment in an environment which lends itself to assessing individuals with complex and/or specialist care and support needs which may be associated with high risk, historic risk and unpredictability. The service will provide short-term, outcome focused residential step through support for working age adults (18–65) with specialist and complex care and support needs, whose needs can be met in a 24/7 staffed, enabling environment that promotes: Recovery, rehabilitation, and reablement. Development of independent living skills Stabilisation following crisis or breakdown, preventing hospital admissi

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Leicestershire County Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £15,902,674, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
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