Supported living: Supported living is an arrangement where people have their own tenancy or ownership of their home and receive care separately, and it requires CQC registration where the care provided includes personal care.
The defining feature is the separation of housing from care. The person is a tenant in their own home rather than a resident in the provider’s setting, and that has consequences for everything from how risk is managed to what the provider may and may not decide.
CQC generally treats the location as the premises the provider coordinates care from, rather than each individual property. The label alone does not trigger registration; carrying on a regulated activity does.
Applications are examined closely where the service supports autistic people or people with a learning disability, because the model itself is assessed against Right Support, Right Care, Right Culture. Arrangements that look like a care home with tenancies attached tend not to survive that scrutiny.