If you're a Care Provider in the not-for-profit, private or voluntary sector, Shared Ownership can work for you if you're interested in growing your business. 

There is little doubt that Shared Ownership, combined with care and support at home, will become an increasingly popular housing and support solution for disabled people. Government is keen to increase home ownership in the population at large and the recent Green Paper on the future of adult social care makes it clear that fewer people will live in residential care and more people will live at home. Many Local Authorities have already included Shared Ownership in their strategic plans for learning disability services. 

Shared Ownership can work for you by helping you to:

	Develop new services without a requirement for capital
	Re-provide existing services that require modernisation
	Respond innovatively to tenders for new contracts

Shared Ownership Homes has been developed in partnership with SeeAbility, the national charity for people who have a sensory impairment and additional disability. This is what SeeAbility has to say:

'SeeAbility (formerly The Royal School for the Blind) has been providing care, support and accommodation services for disabled people for over two hundred years. In recent times, the charity has focussed on developing care, support and accommodation solutions for disabled people that promote independence, choice and inclusion, mostly in partnership with other public and voluntary sector organisations.

Over the last 18 months, SeeAbility has been working on an extra care housing scheme, in partnership with a housing association, that offers shared ownership accommodation to people with a learning disability and visual impairment. As a result of this work, the charity has become convinced that shared ownership offers real opportunities for many people with a learning disability - people get the chance of a secure home with proper housing rights and have a real choice as to where they live.

By helping to launch Shared Ownership Homes, SeeAbility aims to offer many more people who have a learning disability the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of owning a home of their own. As a provider of care and support services, we plan to use Shared Ownership Homes to offer people living in our residential care homes and rented supported housing schemes more choice. We also see plenty of opportunities to develop new services in partnership with housing providers, in response to demand from both social care commissioners and disabled people.'

It’s also worth remembering people who purchase a Shared Ownership Home get support from start to finish, to ensure a smooth and easy transaction. Full details can be seen on our consumer website.