We provide 250 day-service spaces for individuals who might benefit from engaging in structured, safe, and stimulating daytime activities. Referrals to local day centres are made through the Community Learning Disabilities Team, who can be contacted by emailing LDDuty@towerhamlets.gov.uk.
During 2025 we will be recommissioning our model of day opportunities. We aim to deliver personalised, and peer-led day opportunities with an increased focus on securing employment for people and on supporting and enabling participation in local community activities, while still ensuring there is specific centre-based support for those with higher levels of need. We want to ensure people can participate in a much greater range of activities in the evenings and weekends as well as during the day.
Employment support
We commission an employment support service to support adults with a learning disability into work.
Market opportunities
We will work with providers able to support these aspirations, who take a co-productive approach in the delivery of their services. Care providers will need to:
- See and support people as individuals, providing support to maximise independence.
- Place people and their family/carers at the centre of all they do.
- Continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of provision, with explicit quality standards.
- Be transparent and share concerns, risks and issues with commissioners and borough teams.
- Commit to safeguarding principles, to have their own and local interagency policies and procedures and responsive to promoting safety