Housing, Care and Support: Volume 9 Issue 4

Courage and skill ‐ tackling the big, difficult issues

Inspiring a joint Jewish and Muslim treatment service

Few cultural clashes receive more press coverage than the Jewish and Muslim conflict. Beyond the headlines, both communities suffer from the same social problems ‐ drink and drug…

Equality and diversity: making it real

Action Housing & Support commissioned an independent, external audit of its practices, policies and procedures. The articles outlines its findings, and considers the implications…

Housing with capacity: the Mental Capacity Act explained

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 comes into effect in England and Wales in 2007. The Act contains principles, procedures and safeguards to empower people to make decisions for…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/14769018200600020. When citing the…

Implementing direct payments for people with a learning disability

The article reports on research on the variable take‐up of direct payments. Direct payments offer huge potential for people with learning disabilities, but implementation has been…

Community safety: housing drug and alcohol users

This article reports on the difficulties of finding adequate housing for vulnerable groups including drug users and ex‐drug users.

Improving mental health in a changing NHS

No‐one doubts the progress that has been made, through implementation of the National Service Framework for Mental Health (NSF) (DoH, 1999), in improving services for people with…

The Open Door Project: helping individuals to help themselves and others