Maple Cottage

Maple Cottage is a residential care home providing personal care to one individual with a learning disability and autism, where the provider also lives on-site and delivers the vast majority of the daily support. The recent inspection highlights a unique family-style living environment tailored completely around the resident, fostering a strong, caring, and long-standing relationship built on mutual trust, autonomy, and respect for personal choice.

The home maintains a safe, clean, and well-maintained physical environment equipped with sensory adaptations that meet the resident's specific needs, and medicines are managed safely with regular reviews to prevent over-medication. The provider stays thoroughly up to date with best practice training, and healthcare is proactively managed through regular home visits and close collaboration with community professionals, though care heavily relies on the single provider with contingency plans in place for external agency support.

Daily life is characterized by a warm, inclusive, and deeply respectful atmosphere where the resident enjoys full freedom of movement, privacy, and control over their routine, meals, and snacks. The support is exceptionally personalized, featuring a specially designed living space and sensory room tailored to the resident's exact preferences, while proactively preventing social isolation and nurturing meaningful relationships with family, friends, and pets.

The service is driven by an unswerving commitment from the provider to uphold the resident's rights, happiness, and long-term goals, maintaining strong networks with external agencies and welcoming professional advice to continuously improve the quality of care provided.