Housing, Care and Support: Volume 2 Issue 1

Carry on up the creek

Housing, Care & Support: The challenge of best value

AT THE HOUSING, CARE and Support Journal conference, the theme was the application of best value, the Government's managerial agenda for local government, to housing, care and…

Best value: A better life for older people

SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL BID successfully to undertake one of the best value pilots with its proposal for ‘A better life for older people’. The project emphasises safety in public…

Services for the next generation: Planning for the future

HOUSING, CARE AND SUPPORT have come a long way in the last 25 years. They are now a mainstream rather than peripheral part of service planning and provision. Changing…

Housing circumstances and preferences of wheelchair users: Looking at new options

JOHN GROOMS HOUSING ASSOCIATION provides housing for people with disabilities. The association commissioned the Housing and Support Partnership to carry out a national survey of…

Filling the empties in supported housing: How big is the problem and what can be done?

EMPTY PLACES IN SUPPORTED housing can be very costly. How significant is this problem, why does it happen and what should be done? A study commissioned by the former Cleveland…

Development of a supported living service for people with enduring mental illness

A NETWORK OF COMMUNITY‐based service for people in Fareham and Gosport with enduring mental illness was developed by Southern Focus Trust ‐ formerly the Portsmouth Housing Trust…

Working together: Joint commissioning in practice

JOINT COMMISSIONING AND JOINT working are strong themes in recent policy and guidance. In practice, it can seem like too many meetings while operations, decision‐making and…

Housing for children with disabilities

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