Timothy, who is one of our supported people in our PSS Shared Lives North Yorkshire service recently celebrated a huge milestone in his life. Timothy has been at his work placement for 40 years! He joined Horticap when he was just 20 years old…
Our Quality team met Ginette at a Shared Lives carers meeting recently to talk about quality checking and to get feedback from carers about their role. Following the meeting they caught up with Ginette who shared an amazing story with…
This Shared Lives Week, we’ve been asking our carers and people we support to talk about one simple thing, ‘What Shared Lives means to me…’The answers have been brilliant. Over the last week, we’ve heard from Shared Lives carers, people we support and colleagues from across the country. Each person…
Some of the people we support in North Yorkshire have had the best time on a recent holiday, and they have kindly shared details about their recent trip to Callen in Ireland. Thank you to Edward Sharpe, Thomas Shakelady and…
When you’ve got a young family, life can feel like a constant juggle. School runs, packed lunches, after school clubs and just trying to keep on top of it all can be a job in itself. So it’s understandable why…
James’ life was pretty different before he started using Shared Lives. It wasn’t often that he left the house and his learning needs made it tough for him to get out and about, even with support from his parents. He’d…