Residential Care for people with Learning Disabilities

A residential home is a comfortable and safe place to live. It will help you to continue living safely. Your family or carer will know that you are in a safe place.

Your bedroom belongs to you. You can choose what you want in your room.
You will be given privacy and will be treated fairly and with respect.

Staff are there all day and all night to give you help and support with emotional, physical and social needs.

The staff will support you to do as many things as you can for yourself and help you to become more independent.

Living in a Residential Care Home can help you to live with (and make friends with) other adults with learning disabilities, if you would like to do this.

Family and friends can visit when you would like them to. And staff can help you to visit them.

You will have a choice about services and activities you go to.

Staff will support you to do things with other people in the community.

You will have a Key Worker who will get to know your needs. They will help to write a plan that will help other people to understand your needs

This plan will include things like:

You can contact us to and a social worker will talk to you about what support you may need.

If it is agreed that a residential care home is the best place for you to live, the worker then will talk to you about where you want to live and how this will be paid for.

See: Making sure you get the right help

There are many Residential Homes that you can choose to live in.

There is  book called the ‘Directory of Care Providers in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland’. It tells you about the residential homes.

You can visit Residential Homes to see what they are like before choosing the ones you like best.