Supported HousingSupported Housing

Domini Gunn

Director of Public Health & Vulnerable Communities

Consult CIH

What has been achieved so far?What has been achieved so far?

Supporting People………

“a story of success…that is changing the lives of over a million people each year”

What has been achieved so far?What has been achieved so far?

The QAF has been hugely influential in influencing the development of policy and best practice. Services previously either looked to inappropriate residential/home care standards or worked without any clear standards. Use of a single tool has helped providers to recognise common interests and objectives.

Supporting People Lead Officer

Audit Commission SP Report 2010Audit Commission SP Report 2010

Ongoing challenges included:keeping needs data up to date and linking this in to the new Joint Strategic Needs Assessment arrangements; sustaining and improving partnerships and cross agency working, especially with health and children’s services, without the underpinning of grant required governance arrangements; andeffective procurement and commissioning in a market that is still not fully mature and which is dependent on public sector funding and policy.

Name that funding?Name that funding?

Preventative services in diminishing schemes

Support at home

Housing support

Housing related support

Enabling services

Care & support and so on and so forth………………

Fast forward – 2011 proposals for Fast forward – 2011 proposals for GovernmentGovernment

Audit Commission Report 2010 Amended Recommendations:(commission) the monitoring of the future commissioning and delivery of housing related support work across central government departments (and facilitate) the review and revision of guidance on policy and practiceasses the impact on joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs); safeguarding of adults and children; tackling social exclusion and worklessness; crime reduction and the rehabilitation of offenders (facilitate) monitoring of the provision of housing related support and its benefits annually to ensure the continued success of (spend), sharing innovation and good practice