Choice Support is a national charity supporting autistic people, and people with learning disabilities or mental health needs.

Our purpose is to create opportunities for happiness for the people we support.

Our values are:

We care - we care about people and we stand up for what is right.

We respect - we are open and honest and value people for who they are.

We lead - we are experts at what we do and we make good ideas happen.

We learn - we listen, we work together and we continue to improve.

Choice Support operates supported living services, residential care homes, day services, supported employment and wellbeing projects for people with learning disabilities, autistic people and people with mental health needs in over 200 locations across England, from Wakefield in the north, to the south coast from Hampshire to Kent. Our annual turnover is £66M pa, we employ over 2,600 staff and support 2,500 people.

We are proud of the many ways that we make good things happen for the people we support. Leading a fulfilled life means different things to different people. Here at Choice Support we are dedicated to creating opportunities for happiness.

When Lynda asked us for a service to be set-up especially for her daughter, it turned out to be a life-changing experience for all her family.  She said:  “I’m proud that some of the most dedicated people I know are supporting Olivia to live her best life and have also supported me and my family in this huge task.”

People with learning disabilities and/or autistic people should be able to enjoy the same sexual and romantic freedoms as everyone else. Our work with the human rights campaign, Supported Loving aims to support people to develop and maintain loving relationships.

We use technology to co-design solutions to the barriers people face. This can be in the form of technology for individuals and their staff teams, new ways for staff to work digitally, and to enable new models of support. We have used voice-enabled smart technology to increase people’s independence and we are also trialling an alert system and lone-working solution that will allow night support staff to be more responsive and keep people safe, whilst being less intrusive.