About Mencap's residential care services
Our residential care services are small, high-quality personalised residential care homes, which are adapted to meet the needs of the people we support.
If you need it we can provide specialist equipment to meet your needs – we support people to use personalised technology to help them to be as independent as possible.
Mencap provide support that is built around you
Everyone we support is encouraged to take part in as many everyday activities as they can, whatever their needs. The support we provide focuses on giving people as much as control as possible over their life, from doing household chores to supporting people to eat and drink on their own.
People have choice such as deciding how your home is run, choosing your support workers and picking how you want to decorate your bedroom.
Our support focuses on helping people we support to live their life as independently as possible. People can learn and develop new skills, and residential care can often be a stepping stone to supported living.
We have years of experience of providing the very best support to people in residential care - Our services meet or exceed the standards set by the Care Quality Commission and the Social Services Inspectorate Wales.
We also have our own quality standards, What Matters Most, which help us support people in the best possible way. These standards have been developed to cover the things that people have told us are important to them.
How Mencap can support you
We offer a range of support based on people's individual needs and aspirations. This can include support with:
- household tasks
- personal care
- taking medication
- money management
- building links with friends, family and the
community
A community is the people and places in an area.
- social and
leisure
Leisure is when you have time to do things you enjoy like playing sports or going to the pub.
activities - making healthy lifestyle choices
- quality services.
Specialist support
We are an experienced provider of supporting people with more complex needs, including those with profound and multiple learning disabilities, as well as
autism
Autism is a disability. Autistic people find it difficult to understand what other people think and feel. They also find it difficult to tell people what they think and feel. Everyone with autism is different.
and
challenging behaviour
Challenging behaviour can be when someone hurts themselves, hits or pinches someone else, or breaks something. Some people might behave like this because they are upset or because people do not understand them.
. We also offer support for people at risk of committing a criminal offence.
How to get the support you need
Contact the
Learning Disability
A learning disability is to do with the way someone's brain works. It makes it harder for someone to learn, understand or do things.
Helpline for advice and information about the support Mencap can offer. Alternatively, visit our online community - a safe space for parents and carers of people with a
learning disability
A learning disability is to do with the way someone's brain works. It makes it harder for someone to learn, understand or do things.
to share their experiences, advice and support.