Practical Stuff: after moving

Keeping yourself safe out of the home

After you have moved there may be a lot of new things for you to experience.

For some people lots of new things can feel scary.

One of the most important things once you have moved is to make sure you keep yourself safe.

A lot of places in the UK now have a Safe Place Scheme. This means if you see the Safe Place sign on any windows or doors you can go there to ask for help or anything if you are struggling when you are out.

Click below to go to the Safe Place Scheme website for more information.

Keeping yourself safe at home

Being in your new place can feel hard sometimes when it is new.

One of the most important things once you have moved is to make sure you keep yourself safe in your new placement.

People First website has lots of useful information about keeping safe at home.

Click below to go to the People First website where you can get more information about your safety at home.

The Easy Health website also has useful easy read documents about keeping safe at home. You can download these.

It is free to sign up to the website to access the documents.

Managing your money.

Once you have moved you may have to manage your own money and pay your own bills.

This can be confusing for some people and hard to know what to do.

The People First website has helpful information about managing your money and paying your bills.

Click the link below to go to the People First website.

Use the link below to download an easy read guide to looking after your money. It can help you with understanding your bills, saving money, budgeting, getting help with your money.

The cost of living has increased and this can make paying bills and managing money difficult.

Learning Disability England have provided some helpful resources that give more information about what you can do to help with looking after your money.

What if things go wrong?

When you have moved sometimes things may go wrong or you may need help with something in your new placement.

Depending on the type of support you have will depend on who does what and who you will need to contact to get help.

It can be helpful when you have moved to talk to someone about who you need to contact when you need help with something.

You can download the form below and use it to fill in, either by yourself or with someone else.

You can put in the important names and contact numbers of people who can help you. Some examples have been included and there is space to add your own.

Information for supporting someone after moving

Active Support is a way of supporting someone whilst keeping the person themselves at the centre of the care provided.

It is an individualised approach that enables the person to be engaged as much as possible in all areas of their lives.

United Response with the Tizard Centre have developed a guide to using Active Support.

Use the link below to download the guide.

Feeling at home project

This project has developed a website which has some helpful ideas about what might help you or someone you support to feel at home in their new environment.

Thinking of next steps

Once you have moved and settled into your new environment you may start to think about what you will do next.

This may include college, university, or getting a job.

Ambitious about Autism have developed a toolkit to help young people with autism when planning their next steps.

The toolkit also has really helpful information and resources for employers to help them understand more about autism. You may find it helpful to share this with places you are looking at next for work or education.

Click the link below to access the toolkit.