Our Strategic Advice offer
Shared Lives offers a practical and proven way to respond to rising pressures in adult social care. It provides personalised, community-based support that delivers strong outcomes in wellbeing, independence and safety. Shared Lives Plus modelling shows that with targeted investment the sector could support 6,089 additional people with a learning disability by 2030.
Experts in Shared Lives care
For over 30 years Shared Lives Plus has championed Shared Lives as the future of what good social care could look like. Over that time, we have developed leading expertise across legal, social care, employment and housing issues alongside a best practice framework for schemes. Our consultancy team works alongside our membership team experts to ensure that your processes and working practices are robust and effective for the long-term.
Unlike generic consultancy agencies, we are the only organisation in the UK providing a comprehensive range of support specifically designed for local councils and their Shared Lives schemes to establish, diversify and grow, backed up by our up-to-date research, data, membership support, best practice and expertise.
“I have been involved in Shared Lives for 30 years, and I can honestly say this is the most exciting and forward-thinking it has ever been. That’s largely because of the Shared Lives Plus team and the way they bring schemes together.”
Our support
Our team brings together a broad range of specialist skills, drawing on an informed Shared Lives evidence base. This includes data and cost benefit analysis, research, Shared Lives carer and scheme recruitment, transformation and improvement, and project management. We provide rapid or longer-term partnership support tailored to your local needs.
Our menu of support is flexible: once you decide which key area to focus on, you can choose whether to commission the whole package, or parts of it, depending on your priorities and stage of development.
Our support is underpinned by an established, evidenced based framework for the development of Shared Lives, backed by Partners for Care in Health (LGA and ADASS) which features six key building blocks for growth.
Establish, Grow, and Diversify Shared Lives
Establish
We can support you to make the case for a Shared Lives scheme and determine the operational steps to establish it in your area.
Grow
We provide expert support to help you build strong foundations for growth, overcome common barriers, and apply proven good practice.
Diversify
Diversifying Shared Lives involves a range of considerations that our team of experts can support with.
Package costs
Our consultancy offer is fully tailored to your needs, with flexible support packages based on a competitive day rate. We collaborate with you to clarify your goals and shape a bespoke programme of support, providing an initial indicative fee which we refine together to ensure best value.
Contact us to discuss your local needs consultancy@sharedlivesplus.org.uk
