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Shared Lives Sheffield - Adult Family Placement

Shared Lives provides family-based care to adults in the community who need support and do not want residential care. The primary aims of the service are to enable people to remain in the community, to promote choice, independence and social inclusion and to improve the quality of their life.

Sheffield City Council's Shared Lives scheme was set up in 1982 and is one of many similar services run by Local Authorities and Voluntary Agencies throughout the country. 
Many of these services are affiliated to the national organisation Shared Lives Plus. Shared Lives Plus works alongside Social Care and Voluntary Sector to provide an invaluable source of information and guidance both nationally and regionally to services and approved carers.

Shared Lives can be used to:

Support people who are caring for dependent relatives or friends by providing periods of short breaks to the person they are caring for so that they are able to continue caring for that person in the community.

Provide Long term care in the homes of registered Shared Lives Carers

Provide short term or emergency short breaks care

Provide daycare

Shared Lives Sheffield is registered with the Care Quality Commission and all our carers are trained,  regularly monitored, reviewed and supported by the scheme.

Time details

Office Open Monday to Friday 9am until 5pm

Eligibility criteria for your service and any priority groups

Individuals must meet Care Act criteria for eligibility to adult services

Staffing arrangements/training to support children or young people with SEND

Staffing: All of our Scheme workers are employed by SCC and recieve inhouse training. The managers and scheme workers all have backgrounds working in learning disability, autism and with vulnerable people .The self employed carers who are matched with individuals have diverse backgrounds and many of them have been previous foster care rs. Care practice and competencies are monitored and additional training needs identified. We work hard to understand the people we support, their families and carers to best match our Shared Lives Carers ensuring consistency of care and enabling a trusting relationship to be built  . Our team and shared lives carers meet the specific needs of adults and children as applicable in collaboration with the relevant education and or health professionals.

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