Supported Living

Camphill Clanabogan is currently working to become part of a new Government Initiative to address the needs of people with learning disabilities in the 21 century. In a move away from registered Care Facilities the wish is to become part of the Supported Living Programme. This is a scheme to provide adults with special needs the choice of where they would like to live and how they are supported to pursue a chosen lifestyle.

The concepts of a "villager community" or "international community" are accepted as valuable option of choice. With sufficient publicity it is hoped that people will be able exercise their choice to live and work in Clanabogan. A person with a disability will have the rights as any citizen to apply for Housing Benefits to pay for accommodation and through the "Supported Living" scheme be allocated money to pay for their appropriate support needs.

We feel that the ethos of Clanabogan as an inter-dependent supportive lifestyle is more appropriately recognized within this new framework.