About Us

Shared Lives Plus is the UK network for family-based and small-scale ways of supporting adults. Our members are Shared Lives carers and workers, Homeshare programmes and micro-enterprises. Shared Lives used to be known as Adult Placement. Our members are individual Shared Lives carers, Shared Lives schemes, Homeshare providers and micro-enterprises. They use different approaches to enable people to achieve goals such as:

• being in control of their services and their lives.
• pursuing ordinary lives within their chosen families and relationships.
• being valued by their communities and feeling like they belong.

  SharedLivesPlus' members deliver or coordinate services which:

• are built around individuals, their strengths and potential;
• promote equality and value diversity;
• are safe but support people to take risks in pursuit of their goals;
• are cost-effective, with consistently better outcomes than alternatives.

SharedLivesPlus works with its members to:

• provide resources, training, insurance and one-to-one support;
• enable members to talk to, support and learn from each other;
• ensure that members can act as a network to influence national and local decision makers and the development of a more personalised social care system;
• raise awareness of the value of members’ work;
• commission research and strengthen the evidence base for our work.