Housing, Care and Support: Volume 6 Issue 4

On the importance of strategy

Maurice Harker

Community development with a care and support agenda: Is it achievable?

Deborah Quilgars

Care and support agendas have tended to focus on the need to develop effective services to meet individualised needs within communities of interest. In contrast, community…

Developing housing options for prison leavers: A link worker scheme for those with mental health and multiple needs

Rob Fitzpatrick

Revolving Doors Agency is currently developing an experimental housing project in Islington for prison leavers with mental health and multiple needs. The article summarises the…

Supporting People and women's refuges

Linda Delahay

Supporting People provides the opportunity to put refuge services on a firm financial footing. However, Supporting People only funds adult ‘housing‐related’ bed spaces. Children…

Care home or supported housing? Pointers from the case of Alternative Futures Ltd v National Care Standards Commission

Linda Convery

In June 2003 the Care Standards Tribunal heard an appeal from Alternative Futures Limited against a decision by the National Care Standards Commission to refuse Alternative…

Extra care housing: Getting the facts straight and improving practice

Moyra Riseborough, Jeremy Porteus

In this article we first give the facts on what extra care is. Second, we make a few points on what really helps improve commissioning. The article draws on innovative and…

Continuing care retirement communities: Description and an evaluation

Nigel King

The last edition of the Journal carried an introduction to retirement communities. Hartrigg Oaks is a non‐profit‐making community, developed without government subsidy, developed…

The Homelessness Factfile: A compact encyclopædia from Crisis

The second edition of the Homelessness Factfile has two main themes: the characteristics of homeless people, and the policy and service responses to homelessness and to its…