MCCH is a non-profit-making company which supports people with a learning disability, autism or a mental health need to lead full and valued lives.
Our vision is to provide a home, a job and a social life to all our service users.
In the News Shopper of October 22, a reader raised concerns regarding the future of services for people with learning disabilities (Please Listen To Support Staff, Letters).
We are keen to reassure your readers of our commitment to people with a learning disability, in partnership with the London Borough of Bexley.
We currently provide opportunity for our service users to choose to live in a supported living environment when they might have, in the past, resided in a registered care service.
This gives them the chance to maintain an assured tenancy with full legal tenure, empowers them to exercise the rights and responsibilities of a tenant many people within society take for granted, but most importantly provides them with a home of their own.
We do not intend all our service users will live in a supported living service. There will continue to be a future need for modern and adaptable registered care services.
In the future more of our service users will pay for their own services through individualised budgets.
Bexley Council and MCCH are fully supportive of this central government initiative, as it will provide genuine choice and autonomy to people with a learning disability and allow those people to shape and form future services.
We have helped many people gain more independence and control of their own lives, and a number have paid or voluntary employment opportunities.
Our staff teams are integral to supporting our service users to make their own choices about which type of service will best meet their needs.
We value the excellent work they do and encourage them to raise issues of importance so we can continually improve the quality of the services we are commissioned to provide. MCCH has been at the forefront of improving and modernising services for people with a learning disability across the south east of England for many years and we recently celebrated our 20th anniversary.
We would welcome requests for information or support on the work we do.
Alex Seery
Area director
MCCH Society Ltd
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