How You'll Benefit
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 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. |
