Housing, Care and Support: Volume 3 Issue 1

New specs for 2000

Maurice Harker

Leaving homelessness behind: New solutions for a new age

Shaks Ghosh

The homeless population is one of the most studied in the field of social exclusion. We know more than enough about the problem of homelessness and its associated demographics…

Supporting People and neighbourhood renewal: Does special help for individuals fit within community development?

Martin Cooper

This article takes up the issue of the relationship between Supporting People and neighbourhood renewal. It attempts a non‐partisan debate about how Supporting People can play a…

A partnership for health

Peter Molyneux

The flu ‘epidemic’ and the ‘shortage’ of beds within the NHS dominated the headlines in the first weeks of the twenty‐first century. That this very twentieth‐century issue should…

Social housing and the national service framework for mental health

Eddie Greenwood

The transforming influence of care in the community, with its resulting mass of new legislation, has brought about change whose pace has been gathering momentum. The culmination…

Housing opportunities for people with learning disabilities: A national pilot project aimed at helping local authorities increase the range of choice

Janet Solomons

This article analyses the experience of the London Borough of Barnet's participation in a national housing pilot project which sought to enable local authorities to increase the…

Meeting the housing needs of disabled children: Identifying the problems and a practitioner's agenda for joint working

Christine Oldman, Bryony Beresford

This article is based on two pieces of work. The first, Homes Unfit for Children (Oldman & Beresford, 1998), was based on a postal survey and 40 in‐depth interviews with families…

Best value for extra care services: Going beyond simple measures

Sharon Mitchell

Applying best value principles to ‘hard’ services such as repairs, planned maintenance, rent collection and arrears management is relatively straightforward, with a raft of good…