Services · Registration and start-up
Whether there is anybody to care for
Before the lease, before the registration, before the staffing model. Whether sustainable demand exists where you are proposing to put the service.
Services rarely fail because the care is poor
They fail because the referrals never came at the volume the plan assumed, and by the time that is obvious the lease is signed and the staff are hired.
Commissioners have priorities that are published and specific. Local demand is knowable. Competing provision is countable.
Very few people check any of it before committing — and CQC, commissioners, lenders and investors increasingly expect to see that you did.
Not signed anything yet?
Then this is worth a fortnight. The cheapest version of this problem is the one you find before the lease.
Talk it throughWhat it is
Local, specific, and honest about the answer.
Local, not national
Sector-level statistics do not tell you whether one town needs another supported living service.
Commissioning-aware
What the local authority is actually buying, and at what rate.
Honest about the answer
Sometimes the finding is that the location is wrong and the model is right, which is a much cheaper problem to have early.
What it covers, and what it does not
Analysis and a written assessment.
We do not find you a building — that sits with the property work — and we do not guarantee occupancy, because nobody can. What we can tell you is whether the demand you are assuming is actually there.
Fees are quoted before any work starts. Nothing on this page is an offer.
Who it is for
Anyone about to sign
For a building or a site.
Providers expanding
Into an area they do not already operate in.
Buyers
Assessing whether an existing service has room to grow or is already at its ceiling.
Tell us the postcode and the model. We will tell you what we find.
Thirty minutes, no charge. If the answer is obvious from the first look, we will say so and you will not need the full piece of work.
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07426 919823If it is easier to write it down than say it out loud, send a message.
The question that comes before the lease.