SEND specific day services and respite and how to access them.
Referrals
The first step in Wiltshire if you have not already been referred under the age of 18 by a community team like the Children and Young Peoples Disability Team is to have an Early Support Assessment, you can arrange this by calling the integrated children's services telephone service 0300 456 0108 which includes all referrals for SEND. You can read more about this by visiting the Adult Social Care page.
If you are over the age of 18 use Your care Your support: Advice and contact team contact details (opens new window) on 0300 4560111 and request a Care Act Assessment. Once you have been assessed as eligible for adult social services, an 'Assessment of needs (opens new window)' can be carried out for those living at home or with relatives to find out which service is the right choice. Your social worker will talk to you to find out what would suit your needs and be the best option and can then make the required referrals.
Day Opportunities
Day services aim to provide every opportunity for attendees to grow in confidence and live their best life. They work with people to try new activities to learn new skills and to maintain the old ones, with a great team of support workers using specialist techniques and effective communication to support people with any outcomes they wish to complete. They also work alongside other professionals and communities to ensure you enjoy your time and get the best from the service. The environments supports people in maintaining independence, personal development and inclusion in local community life by offering the chance to socialise and meet new people.
Different kinds of service that support people with needs
- Find more 18+ opportunities by visiting the adult services Your care, your support: Things to do - All day - Day Opportunities (opens new window).
- Find more 18+ day opportunities not specific to learning needs, Your care, your support: day opportunities (opens new window).
- Your care, your support: The Medley Trowbridge - Day opportunity service (opens new window) is a day opportunities service inside Trowbridge, County Hall, that provides enablement and skill building, five days a week to adults 18+ with additional learning needs. The service has a person-centred approach and supports individuals who may be living at home with their families or in a Your Care Your Support Wiltshire: Shared Lives Wiltshire (opens new window) placement. Find out what to expect at the Medley.
- Your care, your support: Day Opportunity Service - The Riverbank - Chippenham (opens new window) is a service for adults with additional learning needs. Promoting independence and community integration, with a person centred approach. Referrals are made by the Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities (opens new window).
- Your care, your support: The Meadows Salisbury - Day opportunity service (opens new window) is a day opportunity service for adults with learning disabilities, based at Fiver Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre in Salisbury. Customers are encouraged to achieve their goals and develop their skills.
- Your care, your support: Shared Days Wiltshire (opens new window) is part of Your Care Your Support Wiltshire: Shared Lives Wiltshire (opens new window) - a scheme which provides support, care and companionship to adults who have mental health needs or learning disabilities, physical impairments, or are elderly, or those who for a variety of reasons need support. While Shared Lives carers normally share their homes with the people they support on a long-term or respite basis, Shared Days carers share their days with them. From learning independent skills such as cooking and seeking employment, to dog walking or pursuing a new hobby, this day support service empowers individuals to build meaningful relationships and do what matters most to them.
- Community Connecting assists customers to find out more about their local community and how they can access some of the following: finding voluntary work/ socialising/ joining a club/ further education; including college courses and other training opportunities/ using their community facilities to do things that they enjoy/ meeting friends/ Traineeships/ travel training. Watch the short YouTube: Sammy B - Community Connecting (opens new window) video on their service for more information.
- Work Wiltshire: Family and Community Learning (opens new window) assist their attendees with discovering new opportunities, developing skills and achieving ambitions. They have a range of single-session and short courses for adults, taught online or at venues across Wiltshire. They aim to build confidence, develop new skills, reconnect people with learning and enable next steps to further learning, volunteering or employment.
Respite
Respite care means taking a break from caring, while the person you care for is looked after by someone else. It lets you take time out to look after yourself and helps stop you becoming exhausted and run down.
There are three respite services within the council, which young adults with a diagnosed additional learning needs can choose to access. The respite services are in Devizes, Chippenham and Salisbury. The number of nights offered to a young person is based on need, so varies from person to person. If a young people chooses not to access one of the respite services, they can request a direct payment instead. This option is available for young people with a disability who have an assessed need.
If a young person meets our assessment criteria, a package of support may be offered through partner agencies or as a direct payment, including:
- support at home (personal care, getting up and ready for the day, support during a time of crisis)
- personal care (for individuals with substantial moving and handling needs)
- day care (through Family Link Care or child minders)
- overnight care (through Family Link or Canon's House (opens new window))
- NHS: Carers' breaks and respite care (opens new window)
Wiltshire Services
- Your care, your support: Bradbury Manor Devizes (opens new window) is a respite service in Devizes that can accommodate short breaks for up to 9 customers with learning disabilities. Bradbury Manor promotes independence and daily living skills and the building features an independent living space where customers can experience a supported living environment. During their stay they will have the opportunity to learn about things such as budgeting their money and developing their cooking skills.
- Your care, your support: Bradbury House Salisbury (opens new window) is a respite service in Salisbury that can accommodate up to 10 people with learning disabilities, some of whom may have additional physical needs.
- Your care, your support: Meadow Lodge Respite Unit - Chippenham (opens new window) is a residential care home in Chippenham, offering emergency and planned short term respite care for up to 4 people with a learning difficulty, some of whom may have additional physical needs. All accommodation is on the ground floor and in single rooms. There are shared recreational rooms and accessible gardens.
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