We would like to thank everyone who responded to the consultation on our draft documents; Care Homes for Adults – The Design Guide and Care Homes for Children and Young People – The Design Guide between 21 June and 19 July 2021.

You can review the feedback from this consultation, and our response to the feedback below:

Care Homes for Adults: The Design Guide

Care Homes for Children and Young People: The Design Guide

One of the themes in the responses we received was around the inclusion of visuals in the published version of the document. We would like to invite providers to share with us good practice examples of rooms or layouts in their services for inclusion in the guidance. This could include:

  • Photographs (of rooms only, not including people)
  • Pre-build artists impressions
  • Floor plans
  •  Architect drawings

You can do this by emailing your contributions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 27 September 2021.

Please ensure any images provided are non-blurry and as high quality as possible.