Overview

Adult residential care is an essential element of our service provision. As children and teenagers with autism progress through our educational services at Doucecroft School and the Further Education Department we work with them to develop their life skills so that they are able to live as independently as possible. However the very nature of autism means that many will need to be supported throughout their adult life, often living in an appropriate adult residential care environment.

Autism Anglia, therefore, provides a number of adult residential houses for service users.  Three houses are situated together on our campus at Peldon, a small village near Colchester in Essex, providing homes for eighteen residents - Seymour House (4), Ashton House (3) and Peldon Old Rectory (11).  Two other houses, Bourne House and Coldwell Villa, in Colchester provide a more independent living environment for four and five residents respectively, with Coldwell Villa being specifically for adults with Asperger's Syndrome. In Norfolk we have three houses for adults - Whitstone House (11), Walnut House (4) and Lambert House (11).

In addition to these houses Autism Anglia maintains seven independent living units: houses where individual adult residents live in their own homes, but with a full package of care and supervision provided by the charity.  Autism Anglia also runs Jigsaw, a daytime study centre in Colchester and has plans to expand the similar service in Norfolk.

Announcement

We are pleased to announce that the Commission for Social Care Standards (CSCi), the body that registers, inspects and reports on social care services in England, have recently awarded all our adult residential units as being ‘excellent’. The award is made following unannounced inspections that have taken place over the past year.

	Peldon Campus		Mersea Road Houses
	Norfolk Houses		Working in Adult Residential Services
	Testimonial