Dover Drive Short Stay Service is a residential care service that provides short stay services to people with learning disabilities and physical disabilities. This service is currently registered for six people over two adjoining houses, numbers 18 and 20 Dover Drive. However, the provider is in the process of changing this to providing a short stay service to four people in one house, 20 Dover Drive.
At the time of inspection two people were using the short service service. The service has been developed and designed in line with the principles and values that underpin Registering the Right Support and other best practice guidance. This ensures that people who use the service can live as full a life as possible and achieve the best possible outcomes. People using the service receive planned and co-ordinated person-centred support that is appropriate and inclusive for them.
The service applied the principles and values of Registering the Right Support and other best practice guidance. These ensure that people who use the service can live as full a life as possible and achieve the best possible outcomes that include control, choice and independence.
The outcomes for people using the service reflected the principles and values of Registering the Right Support by promoting choice and control, independence and inclusion. People's support focused on them having as many opportunities as possible for them to gain new skills and become more independent. People's medicines were managed safely and effectively. People had person centred support plans in place. Risks to people were assessed and appropriate plans were in place to keep people safe.
The provider and registered manager had audits and checks on different aspects of the service in place, for example, health and safety and medicines. These were effective in identifying if there were areas needing to be improved.
