Staying in your current home
The council can offer support if you want to stay in your family home as an adult.
What’s good about staying in your current home?
What’s bad about staying in your current home?
How do I get support from the council to stay in my current home?
You don’t have to leave home just because you become an adult.
If you want to keep living with your family, and they are happy with this too, you can.
However, if you stay at home, you will miss out on the independence that comes with living away from family. Make sure you really think about whether this matters to you.
If you decide you do want to stay home, the council can offer help to make this work.
Nervous of change, but want more independence?
Consider a Shared Lives placement, living with another family. Some Shared Lives placements can be done part-time, so you can still live at home some of the time if you want.
Short Breaks support
You might be able to access Short Breaks support to go to youth groups and activities, and help you and your parents have some time apart sometimes.
If you have a personal budget from Social Care, and get direct payments, you could use this to employ personal assistants or other services that meet your needs.
Read more about short breaks and direct payments on Amaze’s parent website.
Making your home accessible
You can apply for a Disabled Facilities Grant to help adapt the family home to your needs, for example if you are a wheelchair user.
What’s good:
familiarity
you keep your personal income
What’s bad:
lack of independence
to get adaptations or short breaks support, you will need a social care assessment
How do I access support from the council to stay in my current home?
You will need to be assessed by the council’s Adult Social Care department.
Learn about adult social care assessments on your council’s website:
