Strategic Care Partner for Learning Disabilities and Autism Consultation 2024

Bristol City Council consulted on proposals to change the way it buys services for people with learning disabilities and autistic people. These services include:

• Residential and nursing
• Supported accommodation
• Home Care
• Respite
• Community Support
• Direct Payments/Independent Service Fund
• Employment
• Volunteering

Currently the council works with a large number of care providers to deliver services for people with learning disabilities and autistic people in Bristol. However, these services do not meet all of the current social care needs of people or are not available locally to the people that need them.

There are also still gaps in the types of service available across the city. The council is proposing to instead work with a defined list of strategic partners that would deliver more localised services.