Supported living is a service and community living arrangements (CLAs) designed to help people with disabilities to get wide range of support they needs retain their independence by being supported in their own home and local communities.
In the Care Quality Commission (CQC), "supported living" and "extra care" are seen as different service types if their activities are managed such as "personal care" with their surroundings. Therefore, the agency must by law be registered with the CQC.
Services rendered with extra care and supported living schemes gets the same outcome of registration requirements with those set up for normal domiciliary service. In Supported living, the personal care and support given is not considered different from a person’s residence. Support living is registered for “personal care” only and not as care homes for regulated activities.
Supported living care givers are registered domiciliary care and CQC inspectors can only inspect a person’s residence as they do with homes and so does not apply, for instance Regulation 15 “Premises and Equipment” of the health and Social Care Act 2008 ( Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014
In order for the registration of the accommodation aspect of supported living, a change of law is required on grounds that some residence used in the scheme is unsafe.
In order to register the right support on the care given to people with disabilities and autism, it is important to build the right support agenda. During registration CQC examines the influence of accommodation given in the process and changes to registration applications can be made by providers who wishes to begin or extend supported living scheme.