A community based home for 9 adults with severe learning and physical difficulties

With compassion, skill and commitment we aim to provide our residents with an environment where support encouragement, protection, stimulation and opportunity allow them to live life to the full in all its aspects: physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual.

We aim to offer our residents the best possible care and support in a homely setting and to ensure that their needs are sensitively and appropriately met and that their human, tenant and citizen rights are respected, affirmed and asserted.

Value Base

Karuna’s ethos and care standards and practice are underpinned by a widely recognised and accepted value base. These values are the foundations (base) upon which the quality of life of the residents is maintained, secured, enriched and improved. They should inform and inspire all that we do.

1. Privacy – the residents have a right to have their personal life and their affairs protected from intrusion or undue attention

2. Confidentiality – the residents have the right to expect that details and information concerning them are treated in the greatest confidence, accessible only to those so authorised.

3. Dignity – there is a total, unconditional recondition of the intrinsic value of residents, regardless of circumstance and there is a profound respect for their uniqueness and personal needs.

4. Independence – residents have the right to act without reference to another person and this freedom of action may incur some degree of risk.

5. Choice – every opportunity must be taken to enable residents to select independently form a range of options

6. Equal opportunity – all residents are entitled to receive equality of treatment in all aspects of life.

7. Rights – the residents have an unquestionable entitlement to full human, tenant and citizen rights and Karuna has a duty to secure, affirm and assert these.