Enhanced Living Opportunities
New Individual Accommodation and Tailored Services
Eleven people with a learning disability who use Fremantle’s Supported Living Service in Milton Keynes are moving into new accommodation this week. They are leaving behind their old shared accommodation and moving into high specification, individual, purpose built flats where they will be able to enjoy a higher degree of privacy and enhanced independence.
The move has been long planned and prepared for; the service provided by Fremantle at their old shared accommodation changed registration in May 2008 to become a supported living service, this was in order to provide people with a more innovative form of support and prepare them for the move to individual flats. Each person moving will continue to have a tenancy agreement at the new property, which is owned by Aragon Housing Association, and managed by MacIntyre Housing Association. Everyone will be provided with an individual support package by Fremantle which will focus on each individual’s particular wants and needs.
Everyone has been looking forward to the move immensely for quite some time and with the support of Fremantle staff and their families over many months’ people have been developing the skills which will enable and empower them to live their lives more independently, as tenants in their own homes. The skills development programme put in place by Fremantle was specifically designed to help build confidence, accomplishments and greater independence. The support programmes do not stop with the moves; staff will continue to advise and support people so that they are able to lead enhanced lifestyles, promoting new challenges and opportunities for personal growth.
“Supported living is about increased opportunities and choices and people having greater control over their own lives; it’s also about providing more personal space for individuals,” commented Carole Sawyers, Chief Executive at Fremantle. “The people who have moved into these new, purpose-built facilities will benefit from new and exciting life experiences. They will have individually tailored support packages that provide them with as much, or as little, help as they need, with the added peace of mind for them and their relatives that staff are on hand 24 hours a day.”
More about Individual Supported Living Flats
People who move to individual supported living flats are encouraged and supported to access the full range of social facilities and activities available in the local community and to take an active part in community life. It is recognised, however, that for those people moving from previous long-term placements the opportunity to maintain access to the informal support of the closer ‘peer-group’ requires the provision of some communal space within supported living developments. For individual flats this will be in the form of a ‘drop in’ communal flat.
For more information please contact:
Claire Gajeckyj, Marketing Manager on
01296 737366
Woodley House, 64-65 Rabans Close, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP19 8RS
email: claire.gajeckyj@fremantletrust.org
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