Type of service: Domiciliary services, Outreach, Respite and short breaks, Service providers, Family support and information services

Service URL: http://www.psspeople.com

PSS is a social enterprise that works across the UK. PSS services include supported living, short breaks and sibling support.

Shared Lives (or Adult Placement as it is also known) is a form of support where vulnerable adults and young people over 16 live at home with a specially recruited and trained carer and their family. The service runs in a similar way to a foster placement, but this service is specifically designed for adults and young people.

Our service is fully focused around choice and independence. We encourage each individual to get involved in the decision of where they live and plan our matches carefully, so that both the carer and person using the service feel happy before the arrangement is made.

PSS formed the first service of its kind in Liverpool over 30 years ago but today it is nationwide and run by many different organisations. For us the service has shown real results, creating positive lifestyles for vulnerable adults and it now provides nearly one fifth of support for adults with a learning disability in the UK.

At PSS we manage the service from the start, we recruit and train carers, we gain a strong understanding of the needs of those wishing to use the service and alongside those involved we match the two together. We offer a programme of training and support for our carers, which helps maintain high levels of support and most importantly we are there 24/7 to help our carers along the way.

This service provides support for people who cannot, at the time they start using our service, support themselves fully. They may have a learning or physical disability, a mental health problem or they may have recently left the more formal care system. The age range of our service users goes from 16 and there is no age limit, so we really do provide a service for all levels of need and all stages of life.

PSS deliver this service in the West Midlands and North West of England, North Wales and Central Scotland.

Aimed at: Adolescent , Adult

Covers: West Midlands

Specialisms: Generic