Bridport Housing Survey 2006
Ted Woodbury
The survey was carried out to see what types of housing people with learning disabilities who lived in Bridport wanted.
•Dorset County Council & West Dorset District council decided what questions they would ask people
• 97% of all people with learning disabilities who live in the Bridport Area responded to the survey.
• The survey did not include people who were not known to Adult Services.
• Most of the surveys were carried out face to face with individuals both on their own and with their parents or carer.
• Only 2 people refused to be part of the survey.
The information collected will be used to help to make
plans for better services
Housing
•100% of people who responded to the survey were of White British origin
Housing
• 45% currently live at home with parents or family members
• 25% are currently living in their own home
Housing
• 7.6% live in Housing Association homes
• 6.8% live in warden assisted accommodation
Housing
• 1.2% of people owned their own home
• 20% of people are living in residential or nursing homes
Housing
• 11.7% of people thought they would need ground floor accommodation to enable them to live independently
• 16.5% of people would need
assistive modifications to the property to enable them to live independently
Housing
• People said they wanted more information on the types of housing that is available.
The information they wanted is as follows:• Housing Complex/Group home 23.5%• Supported Accommodation 5.8%• Warden Assisted 3.5%• Shared Ownership 1.2%• Renting from a private landlord 0%
Housing
• 2.3% of people are on the housing register
• 7% disagreed with their parents views on where they should live
Money
• 24.7% receive housing benefit• 20% receive Supporting People Grants• 76.4% receive income support• 89.4% receive Disability Living Allowance• 0% receive direct payments
Work
• 23% of people are in voluntary work
• 9.4% of people are in paid work
• 55.2% of people attend the Bridport Social & Educational Centre
Care & Support
• 54% would need some help with personal care
• 89% would need support with housing related tasks such as paying bills.
• 15.2% have waking night staff
• 42.3% thought that they would need sleep in staff if they lived independently
Care & Support• 62% said that they could understand an easy
to read tenancy agreement
• 57.6% of people would need the use of video and pictures to help understand their tenancy responsibilities
• 61.1% of people had medical support needs
• 22% of parent/carers have a health condition that affects their ability care
Actions
• Distribute a Housing Options guide to everyone who asked for further information
• Encourage people who want to move to go on the housing register
• Lobby Housing associations to produce an easy read tenancy agreement & instructional tenancy video
By Who?LDPB Project Officer
Community Learning Disability Teams
Dorset Learning Disability Partnership Board
All pictures courtesy of FreeFoto.com Google Images WIDGIT & through-the-maze.org.uk
This version produced by Chris Watson, May 2006
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