AQW 24360/22-27
Mr Nick Mathison
Alliance Party
Strangford
Tabled Date: 13/03/2025
Answered On Date: 31/03/2025
Priority Written: No
Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of respite short break beds available in the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, broken down by location.
Answer:
Children’s Services The South Eastern HSC Trust (SET) currently has one Residential short Breaks Children’s Home, Green Hill, located in Newcastle County Down. This Home, with the new Ministerial investment will be budgeted to deliver two beds per night seven nights per week. However, this will be contingent in a successful workforce recruitment campaign. The Trust also avails of Residential Short Breaks for children with complex medical needs and this is provided by the Belfast Trust, in Forest Lodge, Belfast. Older People Services In SET Older Peoples Services there are 10 block booked short break beds available in both independent sector care homes and in Trust statutory residential facilities: 2 in North Down & Ards (1 bed Mount Alexander Care Home – 1 bed Croaghpatrick Care Home) 4 in Lisburn (2 beds in Drumlough House Care Home and 2 beds in Laurelhill Care Home) 4 in Down (4 beds in Ardview) In addition to these blocks booked respite beds, service users can be admitted to any care home bed should there be a need for an emergency short break or a planned respite short break Adult Learning Disability The SET has 1 statutory short breaks facility for adults with learning disabilities. A panel is held monthly when the registered manager and community social work managers allocate nights for service users based on assessed need. SET also have block contracts with private providers for short breaks for adults with learning disabilities across the 3 sectors of the Trust. Additional beds can also be spot purchased if required and are available. Short breaks with private providers are also allocated as appropriate in accordance with assessed need.
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