What are Day Opportunities?
Day Opportunities help to people to live more independent lives where they can:
- make friends
- develop new skills
- and contribute positively to their communities
They are sometimes called Day Services.
Day opportunities are available for adults with an eligible social care need, or for people who want to pay for their own care. Services support people with:
- age related needs and frailty
- autism or Asperger's
- dementia and memory loss
- learning disabilities
- physical disabilities
- sensory loss
Each service helps to:
- enhance the quality of life for people with care and support needs
- delays and reduces the need for care and support
- ensures that people have a positive experience of care and support
- safeguards adults whose circumstances make them vulnerable and protects them from avoidable harm
Day Opportunities in Cornwall
There are a wide variety of day opportunities available across Cornwall.
The following day opportunities are commissioned by us.
- Age UK Cornwall Falmouth / Newquay / St Austell
- CHAOS, Truro / St Austell
- Coastline, Redruth
- Creative Workshops, Par
- Drym Valley Centre, near Camborne
- Elim, Camborne
- FalCare, Falmouth
- GOAL Gorfenna, St Ive, Liskeard
- Hayle Day Centre, Hayle
- Heather Lane Nursery, Canonstown, Hayle
- Home Farm Trust, St Austell / Truro / St Teath / Wadebridge / Launceston / Liskeard
- Holifield Farm Project, Gweek, Helston
- Kehelland Trust in Kehelland, Camborne
- Mid Cornwall Hub in Boscoppa, St Austell
- Moorvue in Penzance
- Mustard Seed in Helston
- Pengarth Day Centre in Penzance
- United Response, Boscawen Farm in Blackwater, Truro
Day opportunities are funded in the following ways:
- paid for by individuals
- by direct payments
- directly by adult social care
