Supported Housing

(asked on 9th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the net cost of intentional communities in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK.


Answered by
Norman Lamb Portrait
Norman Lamb
This question was answered on 15th July 2014

No estimate hase been made of the net cost of supported living in Ribble Valley constituency, Lancashire and the United Kingdom nor of the net cost of intentional communities in Ribble Valley constituency, Lancashire and the UK. Information is not held centrally of the number of intentional communities that have closed in Ribble Valley constituency, Lancashire and the UK and how many remain open in each area.

On 8 July 2014 the Health and Social Care Information Centre published the latest data for the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, which is the provisional data release for 2013-14. The data indicated that in 2013-14, 74.8% of people with a learning difficulty in England live in their own home or with their family and 25.2% live in a range of other settings including registered care homes, nursing homes and acute and long stay hospitals. For Lancashire, the provisional figure for adults with a learning difficulty living in their own home or with their family was 91.2% and the provisional figure for those living in a range of other settings including registered care homes, nursing homes and acute and long stay hospitals was 8.8%. For adults in contact with secondary mental health services in England, the provisional data indicated that 60.9% were living independently with or without support and 29.1% were living in a range of settings including registered care homes, nursing homes and long stay hospitals. The provisional figure for Lancashire of adults in contact with secondary mental health services who were living independently with or without support was 32% and the provisional figure for adults in contact with secondary mental health services living in a range of settings including registered care homes, nursing homes and long stay hospitals was 68%.

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