{"id":526519,"date":"2026-03-10T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526519\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:41:07","slug":"norwich-mental-health-care-home-plans-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526519\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich mental health care home plans expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A care home for adults with serious mental health illnesses is seeking permission to expand, as experts warn the county faces an urgent shortage in facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kemps Place, Norwich, currently supports 30 people, and has submitted a new application to add six new rooms to the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norfolk County Council cited an &#8220;urgent need&#8221; for this type of service, pointing to a wave of mental health service closures across the county, which has left a hole in local provision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Though not an NHS facility, the service was rated &#8216;good&#8217; by the Care Quality Commission in May 2023, and Adult Social Services raised no concerns over the operator&#8217;s track record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A care home for adults with serious mental health illnesses is seeking permission to expand, as experts warn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-526519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}