Social Services: Learning Disability
(asked on 12th May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many adults with a learning disability live in a care setting.
This question was answered on 27th May 2020
2018-19 is the latest year for which data on the number of clients with a Primary Support Reason of Learning Disability Support receiving long term support by care setting is available. According to the 2018-19 dataset 2,065 adults with a learning disability lived in a nursing care setting whilst 30,410 adults with a learning disability lived in a residential care setting. Therefore, a total of 32,4765 adults with a learning disability lived in a care setting between 2018-19.