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Aintree Lane

Respite Service

Aintree Lane is a four-bedded respite service offering a short-stay facility and 24-hour care for adults with learning disabilities who may also have physical and sensory disabilities.

Our team offers a stimulating, safe and homely environment which promotes independence, wellbeing, and choice.

Our service is innovative in terms of encouraging people to have new experiences, while at the same time providing an assessed level of support, based on personal needs.

We encourage the people we support to develop new skills including life skills such as cooking and self-care.

Like our other respite services, Aintree Lane works in line with the Care Act 2014, ensuring carers of the people we support have a short break from their caring responsibilities, providing positive outcomes for both the people we support and their carers.

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About Aintree Lane

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Aintree Lane workers holding signs with the rating: Good, Care Quality Commission

Contact Details

  • Phone: 0151 526 0090
  • Email: aintreehudson@ndirections.co.uk
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Personal Stories

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“Since our son has been going to Aintree Lane, it has been a new start and a complete breath of fresh air for us. It is so good for us to finally relax when he is in respite and enjoy some time together.

Nothing seems to be an issue for the staff; it is always positive, and we know he can be challenging. Ultimately, that’s why we need the respite.
Although he is nonverbal, when we tell him he is going, he gets so excited. The transport also told us that when they make a specific turn (he is like a sat nav !), he also starts to get excited, knowing he is being taken there after his day centre.”

Parent of a person supported at Aintree Lane

Thomas' Story

Quite simply, I would be lost without the care my son Thomas receives from New Direction’s respite service. Not only me, but Thomas and his brother as well. We are such a close family but sometimes we all need a break from each other, and that is what Aintree Lane’s respite service provides.

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Care Quality Commission

Aintree Lane is a CQC registered service and has a ‘GOOD’ rating.

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Aintree Lane

  • Phone: 0151 526 0090
  • Email: aintreehudson@ndirections.co.uk

Thomas' Story

Quite simply, I would be lost without the care my son Thomas receives from New Direction’s respite service. Not only me, but Thomas and his brother as well. We are such a close family but sometimes we all need a break from each other, and that is what Aintree Lane’s respite service provides.

I think Thomas was going to Aintree Lane since before New Directions took over nearly 20 years ago, and in all that time both Thomas and I have been ever grateful for the respite service the team provide.

Thomas gets 28 days a year at Aintree Lane, and I usually try to manage that as a mix of short mid-week breaks and longer one week stays, and the whole family benefits from time Thomas stays with the team.

Thomas has learning difficulties and special needs, is asthmatic and has other major health issues – including an emergency colostomy surgery while on holiday in Scotland which meant he now has a colostomy bag.

His brother – Thomas is 35 years old, and his brother Phil is several years older – is autistic and receives respite from another provider.

They both need a break from each other, and from me. And to be honest, I’d be lost without the service. I know it can seem selfish, but I do need time for myself, especially after a very traumatic Covid period in which the boys lost their mum and me my amazing partner.

Thomas loves going to Aintree Lane; he enjoys the staff and the other people the team look after while he is there.

They do things with him he would normally not do with me, such as go to the movies, have days out and regular events in the house. And to go to Comic Con in Liverpool Arena, an annual event keenly anticipated!.

He also has access to computers at Aintree that help him communicate, but importantly they let him interact with a world wider than either Aintree Lane or me. It is a great way for him to live out his comic and gaming fantasies.

Unlike so many things in his life, the computers are not looking for anything from Thomas.

Over the years, the Aintree Lane team have always gone the extra mile for Thomas and me.

They are extremely flexible with bookings so I can make sure both Thomas and his brother are in respite respectively at the same time, giving us all a break from each other!

More importantly, they have helped overcome barriers for Thomas – especially around his colostomy bag.

Aintree Lane doesn’t just impact Thomas – his brother benefits from Thomas’s breaks just as I do. We all need the service, and we all appreciate what Thomas enjoys through staying at Aintree Lane.

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