Shared Lives Plus: the growth project

Shared Lives Plus is a charity and the UK network for family-based and smallscale ways of supporting adults. Members are Shared Lives carers and workers, and Homeshare programs. Shared Lives is an alternative to home care and care homes for disabled adults and older people. The organization has needed to grow to be able to fulfill its ambitions to double the size of the Shared Lives sector. Shared Lives Plus has been able to expand in scale and scope in challenging times due to strong leadership, a focus on evidence of outcomes and costs, and combining innovative and more traditional routes for investment.