068 - What matters to people who live in supported living; the 200 Lives research project, with Chris Hatton and Lauren Blood

In this episode Chris Hatton and Lauren Blood talk about the  200 Lives Research project. They discuss their findings from interviewing people with learning disabilities about supported living and residential care. There are many useful learning points to take away from this episode whether you are a service provider or a property developer.  Chris Hatton is a Professor of Social Care at Manchester Metropolitan University, and has been involved in research with people with learning disabilities for over 30 years. He has mainly worked on evaluating policies and services relating to people with learning disabilities, and understanding the social, economic and health inequalities that people face.   Lauren Blood is a Research and Evaluation officer at the National Development Team for Inclusion, where she works on projects relating to inclusion and social change. She has experience conducting research in a range of contexts including healthcare, social care and universities. She is passionate about helping people to tell their stories. https://www.ndti.org.uk/resources/research-project/resources-from-200-lives-project-evaluating-supported-living-and-residential-care-for-adults-with-learning-disabilities Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need. Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.    Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference. To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network⁠ Lisa has written a free guide for you: If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors⁠   If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers⁠  These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.