Costing innovative schemes offering breaks for people with learning difficulties and their carers

<p>This paper describes the costing element of a study of innovative approaches to providing breaks for adults with learning<p><p>difficulties and their carers. The main study which describes the prevalence of such schemes nationally and detailed descriptions of the schemes costed below is reported in Hayes et al (1995). The theoretical basis for costing services has been described in detail elsewhere (Netten and Beecham, 1994). The particular issues when costing services providing breaks is the subject of a separate paper (Netten, 1995). This paper focuses on the costing of eight specific schemes.