Comparing Housing and Support Models for Adults with Learning Disabilities
An exploratory research project to compare the costs and outcomes of supported living and residential care for people with learning disabilities.
Our varied portfolio of research informs and influences the nature of services and community support with the aim of promoting inclusive lives. We provide knowledge, evidence and learning to enable us (and our partners) to work towards a society where all people, regardless of age or disability, are valued and able to live the life they choose.
Our approach is outcomes and values-focused and we seek to produce robust, yet actionable and timely research. As with our other work at NDTi, coproduction is central to our approach and we work with a range of stakeholders at all stages, from research design through delivery to dissemination. We work alongside and support the participation of a variety of partners and community members, including autistic people, people with learning disabilities, those with mental health challenges, younger and older people. We refer to these contributors as people with lived experience or Experts by Experience. It is important to us that people who use services and supports have a say as research partners as well as participants, that their voices and experiences are reflected in our work and that the issues and outcomes we capture are meaningful to them.
We conduct a broad range of short- and long-term research projects that includes:
An exploratory research project to compare the costs and outcomes of supported living and residential care for people with learning disabilities.
Thanks to funding from DRILL (Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning) programme, the NDTi research team worked alongside partner organisation ‘My Life My Choice’ (MLMC) to explore how we can address the barriers that...
Following on from the NDTi report Widening choices for older people with high support needs (2013), NDTi worked with Community Catalysts to hold community conversations to look at what needs to change and how, to...
IHaL - The Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory - was a collaboration between NDTi, Public Health England and the Centre of Disability Research at Lancaster University to:
We’re looking for participants to take part in a piece of research. You should be aged 40+ and have a learning disability and/or be LGBT+.
We were asked to do some research about neurodivergent people's experience of homelessness. In this blog, research and evaluation officer Lauren Blood talks about the work.
We’ve launched a new research programme to find out about care options for older people. We’re keen to hear from social care commissioners and care providers about care options in local areas.
Talking to Siraaj and Jackie from Changing Our Lives about how their quality of life reviews contributed to the 200 Lives research project: Evaluating supported living and residential care for adults with learning disabilities
NDTi are one of the partners on a new research study exploring people with learning disabilities’ experiences of the coronavirus pandemic. It is a UK wide study aiming to speak directly to 1000 people with...
Survey: What is important as we start to get back to normal from coronavirus and lockdown
The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) has been awarded £39,745.00 as part of a £5 million National Lottery funded research programme into independent living for disabled people.
The National Development Team for Inclusion have been granted funding from the National Institute for Health Research‟s School of Social Care Research (SSCR) to carry out a two year study into the cost effectiveness of...
People with learning disabilities have the right to choose where they live, and who they live with. We asked people with learning disabilities what it was like moving into their home. We spoke to...
Mencap commissioned NDTi to conduct some research about work and learning disability in 2022. We worked with a group of people with lived experience of a learning disability to plan, design and advise on different...
The National Institute for Health Research funded Manchester Metropolitan University in partnership with National Development Team for Inclusion, London School of Economics and Changing Our Lives to do this research. This project has now come...
During 2020/21, Anna Marriott from NDTi was part of the research team looking at the impact coronavirus was having on people with learning disabilities. It was the largest scale research study about the pandemic to...
Experiences of family carers who support someone with learning disabilities
Measuring and monitoring the quality of housing services for and with people with learning disabilities - Key findings from commissioner and service provider surveys
Key findings about becoming age friendly from NDTi’s evaluation of the Age Friendly Island project
People with learning disabilities want to love and be loved. They are often denied their right to sexual relationships.
This small research project aims to explore the differences between living in Residential Care and Supported Living settings for people with learning disabilities.
A review of economic evaluations and studies that have been conducted on seven approaches to building community capacity:
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