Jaffray Care Society
Charity 1001885
Overview
Summary
Jaffray Care appears to be a specialist, Birmingham-based adult social care charity whose role extends beyond accommodation: it provides personalised support across learning disability, physical disability, complex health and end-of-life needs. Its origins in the move away from long-stay hospitals suggest that community inclusion is central to its institutional purpose. The available evidence indicates a provider built around sustained, high-intensity care relationships, while retaining a day-care offer that may connect residential support with wider community participation.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Erdington
Confidence: high
Direct, current evidence identifies several Jaffray Care delivery sites in Erdington: Lime Court; Rivendell and Lorien; Tudor Gardens; and the Activity Hub. These include regulated residential care and community day services.
- Care Quality Commission, Jaffray Care Society – Services
Lists Jaffray Care Society as provider of Lime Court, Rivendell and Lorien, and Tudor Gardens; each is identified as Erdington, Birmingham. - Jaffray Care, Day Care Support Worker job description
Identifies current working locations as Lime Court; Rivendell, Lorien and the Activity Hub in Erdington; and Tudor Gardens in Erdington. - Jaffray Care, Supported Living – Domiciliary Care
States that Broadfields Lodge provides supported-living apartments on the Erdington/Sutton Coldfield border. - Jaffray Care, Community Day Services
Describes the Jaffray Activity Hub as a day-service and community facility, including activities, accessible facilities and room hire.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence establishes a substantial operational concentration in Erdington, but does not establish whether Broadfields Lodge is within Erdington ward.
- The available evidence does not specify the Birmingham neighbourhoods in which Jaffray Care delivers domiciliary support in people's own homes.
- No authoritative evidence reviewed identifies material partnerships that extend Jaffray Care's operational reach within Birmingham. The stated local-community links around Tudor Gardens do not, by themselves, demonstrate a wider partnership-led footprint.
- The organisation also operates Parkfields in Wolverhampton. This directly supports a regional overall footprint, while the Birmingham evidence remains concentrated in and around Erdington rather than demonstrating citywide delivery.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service-location list or annual report identifying the areas served by the domiciliary-care and supported-living services.
- Ward confirmation for Broadfields Lodge.
- Current contract, referral or partnership information showing whether Birmingham delivery is commissioned or delivered beyond the Erdington cluster.
Areas of work
- Disability
Who they help
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A legacy community-care provider
Jaffray Care appears to have been shaped by the transition from institutional to community-based support for people with learning disabilities. Its continuing emphasis on rights, independence, choice and inclusion may reflect this origin rather than being only contemporary service language.
Why it matters
This helps explain the organisation's likely role in the local care system: not simply filling care placements, but sustaining a model intended to enable adults with substantial needs to live in community settings.
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“The Learning Disability Services opened on 18 February 1991 in response to the Community Care Act 1990 and the aim of moving people with learning difficulties from long-stay hospitals into supported community-based services.”
Source:Organisation“The charity promotes rights, independence, choice and inclusion through personalised, needs-led support.”
Source:Organisation
Operating across a wide range of care intensity
The organisation appears to combine lower-intensity guidance with 24-hour support, serving adults whose needs can span disability, complex health conditions, mental health and palliative care. This may make it a bridge between social care and more clinically demanding support.
Why it matters
Its breadth suggests that Jaffray Care may hold specialist capability that is difficult to replace locally, particularly where a person's needs do not fit a single disability or service category.
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“Support ranges from periodic one-to-one guidance to intensive twenty-four-hour care.”
Source:Organisation“The charity supports adults with complex health care needs, physical disability, sensory impairment, mental health needs and palliative care needs.”
Source:Organisation
Residential care is paired with a potentially connective day offer
Alongside housing and associated amenities, the charity maintains an open day-care facility. This may create a less residentially bounded role, offering activity, relationships or support to people beyond those living in its accommodation.
Why it matters
If the day service serves a wider group, it could be an important point of connection between supported living, families and community participation rather than a service limited to residents.
Show evidence
“The Society provides housing, care and associated amenities for people with developmental difficulties and an open day-care facility for people with developmental difficulties.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides facilities for recreation and other leisure-time occupation.”
Source:Organisation
- It is unclear which services are available to people who do not live in Jaffray Care accommodation.
- There is no evidence about its local partnerships with NHS bodies, local authorities, families or other voluntary organisations.
- The scale, locations and capacity of its residential and day-care provision are unknown.
Remaining uncertainties
- Service-level information on accommodation, day opportunities, eligibility, capacity and referral sources.
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing income sources, workforce profile, demand and strategic priorities.
- Evidence of partnerships, outcomes and the experiences of people using services and their families.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The ongoing activity of the Society continues to be the provision of housing, care and associated amenities for people with developmental difficulties who are in necessitous circumstances and the provision of an open day-care facility for people with developmental difficulties.
Charity objects
(1)TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO BY REASONS OF AGE,PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ILLNESS,PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HANDICAP REQUIRE SPECIAL CARE EDUCATION OR TRAINING.(2)TO PROVIDE FOR EDUCATIONAL INSTRUCTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH PERSONS TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION.FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF THE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES.