Coming Home Project

Carr Gomm’s Coming Home Project

Carr Gomm is working with people with complex support needs to live in their home community; wherever home is for them.

Home means something different to everyone.

For some, it’s a location or the community around them. For others, it may be where they feel most supported.

In Argyll and Bute, Carr Gomm is working with people to think about what home means to them. In collaboration with Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership, we’re working with people who may have needed to move away from where they grew up or where their family is based to access social care support. Through person-centred planning, we are helping people identify what’s important to them in a home, and if there are things that need to change to make that a reality.

Watch Callum from our Coming Home Project explain how we work alongside people to achieve their goals through our person-centred planning approach.

Person-centred planning is all about:

Understanding a person’s needs and wishes.
Thinking about what is important to a person and those who are important to them.
Thinking about what is working and not working.
Ensuring a person gets the best support from everyone involved, e.g. those important to them, the setting and other professionals.
Involves the person in shaping the future of care and service planning.

Carr Gomm does this by:

Contacting a person’s social work case manager and accessing their current assessments, to best understand their needs.
Arranging to meet the person and their support team, in-person. We would like to spend a day with them and get to know what is important to them, as well as what their needs are. We may use some creative methods to ensure we hear them. This means tailoring our person-centred planning methods to their communication needs.
Speaking to those important to them to get their perspective of the person’s current support.
Creating a unique person-centred review, to share with the person, those important to them, their local authority and other professionals involved in supporting them. This review includes recommendations for what their best life may look like.

The Coming Home project is connected to the Scottish Government’s Coming Home Implementation Programme.

The Coming Home Report (2018) recognised that there are many people in Scotland with learning disabilities and complex care needs who are placed in inappropriate out-of-area placements. This includes being moved away from their home community or being in hospital due to delayed discharge. The Government and local Health and Social Care Partnerships are leading on reducing this number so more people can be supported to live in their home community, with choice and control over their life. Carr Gomm is working in partnership with Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership to support people in expressing their needs, aspirations and wishes and assist them in taking these forward.

By understanding what great support looks like for people, we can better identify where the gaps are in current support and resources. This will inform how future support services are developed and commissioned in Argyll and Bute.