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Our range of houses and flats
cater for individual and shared living, with daily support
provided by Penumbra staff. This varies according to
people’s changing needs and includes both practical
and emotional help. A support worker, for example, may
be involved in giving a tenant a hand with cooking the
evening meal for the house, or going to the cinema with
someone. Support workers are also available to be with
people through anxious or stressful times.
The aim of all of Penumbra’s support is to help
people live their lives to the full in the community.
We provide:
• Small
scale, domestic accommodation so that the
• services
can be personal and homely
• 24
hour support, with out-of-hours support provided either
by pager contact or staff sleeping over
• Houses
which vary in size, location and style
• Houses
which are mainly located within easy access of good
local amenities
• Properties
which range from large older houses to small modern
flats, and from single
• tenancies
to shared accommodation for up to seven people.
Penumbra tenants:
• all
have their own bedroom
• receive
a weekly Personal Allowance from the DSS
• all
have their own key to their bedroom and the front door
• do
not have to pay Council Tax if their Penumbra house
is registered as a Care Home
• with
the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care
• share
responsibility for the day to day running of the house
• receive
a written occupancy agreement outlining their rights
and responsibilities
• pay
a weekly rent to Penumbra, which most tenants claim
from the DSS and local authority
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Social Work Department
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