Archived: Ategi Shared Lives Scheme

• Ategi Shared Lives Scheme is a service that support adults with a learning disability, autistic spectrum disorder, a mental health condition or physical disability. People using the service live with shared lives carers in their homes. CQC does not regulate individual shared lives carers and ‘placements’. We regulate at scheme level, through agency locations. At the time of our inspection, the service was providing care to 39 people and had 31 shared lives carers.

• For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk

People’s experience of using this service:

• People told us they felt safe. People were protected against avoidable harm, abuse, neglect and discrimination.

• People's risks were assessed, and plans were put in place to mitigate the risks.

• People's likes and dislikes were assessed and people’s needs were being met in a personalised way.

• Feedback from people about the care, their shared lives carers and management was consistently positive.

• People told us the service was caring. They were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible; the policies and systems in the service supported this practice.

• People's care was person-centred. The care was designed to ensure people's independence was encouraged.

• People were involved in the care planning and review of their care.

• The service had a stable management structure.

• The provider had implemented systems to ensure they continuously measured the quality of the service.

• The service met the characteristics for a rating of "good" in all the key questions we inspected. Therefore, our overall rating for the service after this inspection was "good".

• More information is in our full report.

Rating at last inspection:

• This was the first inspection for the service since its registration in February 2018.

Why we inspected:

• This inspection was part of our scheduled plan of visiting services to check the safety and quality of care people received.

Follow up:

• We will continue to monitor the service through the information we receive.