Creative Support
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| Formerly | Manchester Housing Consortium |
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| Founded | 1 January 1990 |
| Headquarters | Stockport , England |
Key people | Anna Lunts, Beth Kennedy |
| Services | supported housing, community services |
| Website | https://www.creativesupport.co.uk/ |
Creative Support is a Manchester-based charity in England which works with adults with learning difficulties and mental health issues providing supported housing and community services.
History
[edit]It was established in 1990 and registered in 1991 as an industrial and provident society with charitable status. It was then called Manchester Housing Consortium. It is a registered social landlord and became a community benefit society with charitable status under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. Chief executive Anna Lunts, a mental health nurse who had been involved in the closure of a long-stay psychiatric hospital, was the first employee. For the first five years resettling former patients of mental health hospitals was the main work of the organisation.
A head office was opened in Manchester city centre in 1996 and moved to Stockport in 2017. The organisation has since expanded both geographically and in the scope of its services. It merged with the charity SPACE, based in Preston, Lancashire, who provided sensory experiences for children and adults with a range of needs in 2013. In February 2014 it acquired Delos Community Limited which provided services to people with a learning disability and other needs in Northamptonshire.
Services
[edit]In 2021 it provided support to about 8000 people across England with learning disabilities, autism, mental health needs, physical disabilities and older people, including people living with dementia; and employs approximately 6600 staff. It provides care to individuals in 95 separate CQC registered services, most of which have been rated "Good".[1] In 2020, it had an additional 1400 tenants in supported housing.
It runs:
- a mental health recovery service called Ignite in Sutton Coldfield. This is part of its Birmingham Hub and Spoke Services.[2]
- Elkin Court, a residential home in Partington, rated 'inadequate' by the Care Quality Commission in 2015.[3]
- a Community Links team in Bradford[4]
- Support for people with learning disabilities in Lancashire, which it took over in 2007.[5]
- supported living accommodation in West Berkshire[6]
- care and support for 10 adults with physical or learning disabilities and people with mental health problems in Warrington[7]
It is one of four private companies delivering adult social care in Salford, where Paul Dennett had proposed that an "insourcing commission" would be established to take adult social care back into local authority control.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Creative Support Limited".
- ^ "New Mental Health Recovery Service and Open Day in Sutton Coldfield". Sutton Coldfield Local. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ^ "Elderly treated 'by strangers' and given wrong medication doses at Trafford care home". Mancunian Matters. 13 July 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ^ "Creative Support Community Links team helps to beat loneliness". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ^ "Support staff in pay cut row". Lancaster Guardian. 22 March 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ^ "Why are vulnerable people in Britain being 'supported' to live in squalid flats?". Guardian. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ^ "Three good ratings for care homes and services following Care Quality Commission inspections". Warrington Guardian. 22 February 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ^ "Frontline social care workers 'working 80 hours plus to make ends meet'". Manchester Evening News. 12 September 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.