Formation | 1962 |
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Type | Charity |
Purpose | Social Care |
Headquarters | Bristol, BS13 |
Region served | England, Wales |
Chief Executive | Stephen Veevers [1] |
Staff | 3200 [2] |
Website | www.hft.org.uk |
Hft, formerly known as the Home Farm Trust, is a British learning disability charity based in Bristol. It was established in 1962. The parents who established the charity bought Frocester Manor in Gloucestershire as a residential home for their children. The organisation runs small, person-centred residential care homes and supported living services.
Hft is noted for having established the Fusion Model, which is based on the concept of Person-Centred Active Support, engaging people in meaningful activity and relationships as active participants.
In 2019 it is supporting more than 2,900 adults with learning disabilities. [3] Its charity number is 313069
It supports a successful group of 44 people in Flintshire, Tri Ffordd, which produces handcrafted horticultural goods. [4]
In May 2013, it merged with Self Unlimited, another charity set up in the 1960s to provide support for people with learning disabilities.
Anne, Princess Royal has been the Royal patron of the charity since 1982. [5]
Other patrons of the charity have included:
Hft is a member of the following umbrella organisations: [8]
Hft has achieved several accreditations and certifications: [8]
Hft is a signatory to a number of different codes of practice and commitments designed to encourage best practice in the social care sector: [8]
Hft produces an annual Sector Pulse Check report on organisations providing social care that aims to provide a yearly snapshot of the financial health of the sector. [9]
In June 2019 it submitted evidence to the Low Pay Commission that social care staff are being commissioned at significantly lower rates of pay, compared to local authorities. Social care is typically commissioned at the National Living Wage. The Department of Health and Social Care pays even its lowest paid staff significantly more. [10]
It produced a report with Tunstall Healthcare which was launched in the House of Lords in 2019 highlighting the untapped potential of assistive technology in social care which was welcomed by the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group. [11]
In July 2019 it called for an end to "perverse" commissioning practices that are "negatively impacting" productivity and financial stability in the adult social care sector. It said that input-based by-hour contracts gave "no incentive" for providers to innovate or deliver anything other than one hour of support. [12]
Formation | 1962 |
---|---|
Type | Charity |
Purpose | Social Care |
Headquarters | Bristol, BS13 |
Region served | England, Wales |
Chief Executive | Stephen Veevers [1] |
Staff | 3200 [2] |
Website | www.hft.org.uk |
Hft, formerly known as the Home Farm Trust, is a British learning disability charity based in Bristol. It was established in 1962. The parents who established the charity bought Frocester Manor in Gloucestershire as a residential home for their children. The organisation runs small, person-centred residential care homes and supported living services.
Hft is noted for having established the Fusion Model, which is based on the concept of Person-Centred Active Support, engaging people in meaningful activity and relationships as active participants.
In 2019 it is supporting more than 2,900 adults with learning disabilities. [3] Its charity number is 313069
It supports a successful group of 44 people in Flintshire, Tri Ffordd, which produces handcrafted horticultural goods. [4]
In May 2013, it merged with Self Unlimited, another charity set up in the 1960s to provide support for people with learning disabilities.
Anne, Princess Royal has been the Royal patron of the charity since 1982. [5]
Other patrons of the charity have included:
Hft is a member of the following umbrella organisations: [8]
Hft has achieved several accreditations and certifications: [8]
Hft is a signatory to a number of different codes of practice and commitments designed to encourage best practice in the social care sector: [8]
Hft produces an annual Sector Pulse Check report on organisations providing social care that aims to provide a yearly snapshot of the financial health of the sector. [9]
In June 2019 it submitted evidence to the Low Pay Commission that social care staff are being commissioned at significantly lower rates of pay, compared to local authorities. Social care is typically commissioned at the National Living Wage. The Department of Health and Social Care pays even its lowest paid staff significantly more. [10]
It produced a report with Tunstall Healthcare which was launched in the House of Lords in 2019 highlighting the untapped potential of assistive technology in social care which was welcomed by the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group. [11]
In July 2019 it called for an end to "perverse" commissioning practices that are "negatively impacting" productivity and financial stability in the adult social care sector. It said that input-based by-hour contracts gave "no incentive" for providers to innovate or deliver anything other than one hour of support. [12]