The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) is working on research around housing services (supported living and residential care) for people with learning disabilities.
The non-profit organisation have been working for 25 years to enable both elderly and disabled people to live the life they chose.
NDTi have undertaken focus groups with people with learning disabilities and family carers, and have also interviewed commissioners as well as housing and support providers. You can read the key findings of these focus groups here.
Family carers have told NDTi about the varied ways they support a relative with a learning disability in different housing settings leading them to believe that the role, input and contribution of family carers is an important and neglected area. To explore this further they have created a questionnaire based on what family carers have told them.
If you are a family carer of somebody with a learning disability they would appreciate it if you could complete this survey. which should take around 30 minutes of your time.
The findings of this survey will help NDTi start to quantify the contribution of family carers in terms of time and money spent supporting their relative, and will feed into a larger piece of research.
