Shared and commissioned group provision
We offer a shared home only when the people, risks, home and team can work safely together. The match, staffing, rate and reporting are agreed before the placement starts.
Guide rates
See the full guide rate cardMatched shared home
£350/week
Accommodation only, £50 a night. Support is billed at the staffing rate on top.
24/7 group provision
from £995/bed/week
Only where a whole home of 5 to 6 beds is commissioned for 12 months. The standard bed rate is £1,195.
How shared placements are assessed
A named senior manager approves every offer. We decline where peer risk cannot be controlled, a registered children's home or care service is required, the property is unsuitable or a safe team cannot be confirmed.
People
Age and life stage, culture and language, and the young person’s own view of who they could live with.
Risks
Missing episodes, exploitation, self-harm and substance use, plus the people and places known to trigger them.
Home
Bedroom and communal space, neighbourhood, travel, education, community links, property safety and escape routes.
Team
Ratio, waking or sleep-in night, consistent staff, competence, supervision, on-call and escalation thresholds.
What the commissioner can see
Daily control
Logs completed, read and actioned; missed records and exceptions assigned to a named manager.
Safe home
Staffing versus plan, property actions, incidents, missing episodes and safeguarding escalations.
Progress
Key work and check-ins, education and health, and how ready the young person is to move on.
Reporting SLA
Weekly or monthly report status, outstanding actions and a complete TIFA Connect audit trail.
What the bed fee includes
The bed fee is not all-inclusive. It covers the accommodation and the staffing set out in the written offer. Anything beyond that is priced separately, so the rate you compare is the rate you are invoiced.
The written offer is the controlling document. It confirms the accommodation, hours, ratio, rota and nights; the rate, term, voids, transport, cancellation and VAT; the named owners, safeguarding, escalation and reporting arrangements; and the inclusions, exclusions and how a change is approved. See the full guide rate card.
Inside the bed fee
- The home itself, and its utilities.
- Breakfast, and household consumables.
- A team on site around the clock, backed by on-call management.
- Management, on-call, recording, reporting and placement reviews, none of which is charged separately.
- Food charity deliveries for eligible young people, where the partner offers delivery.
Priced separately
- Meals other than breakfast, which the young people buy themselves.
- Waking nights, second workers and enhanced ratios, priced against the young person’s plan and confirmed in writing before they start.
- Enhanced needs, where the assessed staffing pattern exceeds the standard rota. Quoted from the referral at the enhanced bed rate on the guide rate card.
- Any change to a rate during a placement, which is proposed in writing and agreed before it applies.
Send a referral
Send the referral. We run the matching assessment and ask once for anything else we need to make a safe decision.
The matching decision is what makes a shared placement work, and why the wrong match is worse than an empty bed is about that decision. For the home itself, see what makes a good supported accommodation home. Shared homes have more incidents than solo placements, so what good incident reporting looks like sets out the standard we hold ourselves to.
Make a referral
A senior lead will respond in writing within 24 hours and confirm a suitability decision within one working day, with same-day capability for emergencies.