St. Anne’s has been providing residential and nursing services for people with learning
disabilities since 1985 and a specialist day care service for people with profound disabilities
since 1987.
Residential care homes provide personal care and shared accommodation. They currently accommodate a very significant proportion of people with learning disabilities across the country having expanded with the hospital closure programmes in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
St Anne’s has a wide range of residential care for people with learning disabilities, some of which provide specialist care, for example for offenders, for frail elderly people, for people
with challenging behaviour. The best residential care homes which create a very positive ownership of the home for residents are based on a person centred planning approach and give high quality accommodation and care.
Residential Care is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and is
subject to inspection by CQC and by Environmental Health Departments and the Fire
Authority. Very detailed standards have been set by the Department of Health in terms of
physical standards for the home, level and qualifications of staff management of the home
and involvement of service users. In most cases residents in residential care do not hold
tenancies. To see a summary of how CQC have rated St Anne's registered services please click on this link.
Day Care
The Day Centre at Oxfield Court in Huddersfield is situated within a complex which includes
5 detached bungalows which provide specialist care to people with learning disabilities who
also have physical disabilities.
The Day Centre operates separately from the complex although it does offer some day
activities to most of the clients at Oxfield Court on a sessional basis. The Centre also
offers activities to a large number of people who live at home, all of whom have a severe
learning disability and identified medical needs. Existing clients are transported to and
from the Day Centre and have access to physiotherapy.
