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Daylight: Day Centre for Adults with Learning Disabilities

Islington

Daylight is a day service for adults with varying degrees of learning disabilities. Daylight provides a structured programme of activities to help independent living skills, maintain physical and mental wellbing, and build friendships, and peer support networks.

Activities include:

  • travel training, cooking, gardening, and money management
  • wellbeing activities yoga, cycling, bowling, and ice skating, alongside creative sessions in art, drama, and music
  • visits to museums and galleries, as well as access to physical therapy and hydrotherapy.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

  • a diagnosis of global learning disabilities
  • a concurrent significant impairment in social and adaptive functioning (such as within the autism spectrum).

The service is prioritising people assessed by Islington Learning Disabilities Partnership as having moderate-to-complex high level of needs that cannot be met without day service provision.

 

Exclusions

  • individuals who have profound physical disabilities, but do not have learning disabilities, are not eligible for this service.

How to Refer

Referral number

EMIS form

Referral methods: Email

To be referred to Daylight, a person must have eligible assessed needs under the Care Act 2014. Where eligible needs are identified, people will be required to have a financial assessment in line with the council's Fairer Charging policy. 

Complete the Islington Learning Disabilities Partnership Referral Form and email to duty.ildp@islington.gov.uk

Where to find the form

  • Islington: ISL global documents > Learning Disabilities


Review date: Friday, 02 July 2027