Planning your house

This resource has been developed to plan proactively for personalised housing for a relative. The guide is downloadable or available from our shop as a paper copy.

People with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour have the same rights as everyone else to appropriate local housing and support.

This resource has been developed to enable families to work with others to plan proactively for personalised housing for their relative.

The ‘Planning Your House’ information pack contains the following:

Where to start
What is important about a home
What sort of place to live?
Design, adaptations and assistive technology
Housing specification
Next steps
Useful resources and organisations

Download the guide

Get a paper copy sent to you by visiting our shop*

*This resource is free of charge to family/unpaid carers within the UK.

8 ways to get a House

This guide is to help you and your relative think about the different types of accommodation and how they are funded. The guide is downloadable or available from our shop as a paper copy.

Legal support

Information page about how to get legal advice and/or a solicitor on behalf of a relative with a learning disability, and checking how you can fund legal advice.

Consult the ‘news’ section of our website to read the stories our family carers have written about their own experiences of supporting somebody with a severe learning disability whose behaviour challenges.