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Nurture Support

Our focus is simple: creating the stability, safety, and trust that people need to enable meaningful progress. Through specialist support, multi-disciplinary informed practice, carefully considered environments and person-centred planning, we support people towards sustainable community living.

Nurture Support: A Specialist model built for complexity

Nurture Support is a specialist supported living model for adults with complex needs who require enhanced, least-restrictive, consistent, multi-disciplinary informed support.

It is designed for people who may have experienced repeated placement breakdown, prolonged hospital admissions or instability due to unmet emotional, behavioural or clinical needs.

 

Nurture prioritises emotional safety, trust‑building and stabilisation as the foundation for progress. We combine calm, capable wraparound professional input with skilled, trauma‑informed support to help people move forward at a pace that works for them, delivering efficiencies for commissioning partners.

This isn't generic, one-size-fits-all support. It is a carefully designed model that delivers the right support, in the right way, at the right time.

The Nurture Support Model

Nurture Support is delivered through a trauma-informed model, integrating skilled support, specialist input and carefully planned environments.

Our Values

Our core values represent the core of who we are, what we stand for, and how we strive to achieve our goals. They will serve as our compass as we navigate challenges, celebrate successes, and build a stronger, more united team.

Support Team

Each person is supported by a team recruited and trained around their individual needs, wishes and support plan. The service is shaped through person-centred planning, with careful consideration of Positive Behaviour Support, communication needs, environmental factors and individual preferences. These insights inform how support is designed, implemented and reviewed by the team.

Speacilist Multi-Disciplinary Team

Safe and sustainable outcomes often require timely input from a range of professionals, including Positive Behaviour Support practitioners, nurses, psychologists or psychiatrists, and speech and language therapists. Support is coordinated through Nurture Support’s multi-disciplinary team, which includes a Consultant Social Worker, PBS Lead and Mental Health/Learning Disability nurses. This team works in collaboration with local Community Learning Disability Teams, NHS partners and Intensive Support Services where appropriate. Additional specialist input can be commissioned separately through a Personal Budget, ensuring interventions remain coordinated, evidence-informed and aligned with assessed needs.

Housing

Housing is considered alongside support planning, not separately from it. Where needed, settings may be adapted to reduce anxiety, support predictability and create a greater sense of safety. The environment is treated as part of the support model, helping to promote stability through considered adaptations, assistive technology, security planning and proportionate risk management. Bespoke housing arrangements can also be developed in partnership with commissioning partners.

Who the Nurture Model is for:

Nurture Support is suitable for adults, and young people transitioning into adulthood, who may:

 

  • have autism, learning disabilities, neurodivergence, acquired brain injuries and/or mental health needs
  • experience high anxiety, emotional distress or difficulties with regulation
  • require enhanced support, consistency and skilled oversight
  • be transitioning from hospital, residential care or a family home
  • have experienced placement breakdown where the support model was not the right fit
  • need time, stability and trust before independence can be safely developed

 

Support may also include individuals with complex physical or clinical needs, particularly where emotional, behavioural and health factors intersect.

Nurture is particularly effective where a person needs a period of stability first, before longer-term independence, confidence and community life can be developed safely and sustainably.

Outcomes, Value & Sustainability Focusing on outcomes that matter

We measure the success of Nurture Support through meaningful, sustainable outcomes.

 

For individuals, this may include:

  • increased emotional safety and wellbeing
  • reduced distress and behaviours of concern
  • improved engagement, confidence and relationships
  • gradual development of independence
  • greater stability in daily life
  • improved quality of life and community connection

 

For commissioners, this can support:

  • reduced risk of hospital admission or readmission
  • fewer placement breakdowns
  • reduced reliance on crisis responses
  • more stable and sustainable support arrangements
  • better alignment between assessed need, support intensity and long-term outcomes

 

By focusing on stabilisation first, Nurture Support helps create the conditions for better outcomes, better lives and better value over time.