Supporting People -

Challenges and Opportunities

Cllr Terri Reid – Housing and Regeneration

SP – What is it?

• Revenue funding for housing related support to vulnerable people

• Support – accommodation based or floating. Reactive and preventative

• Programme in place 2003 – 2013 through HCC but in partnership with districts & others

• Significant Programme – 2010 - £30m p.a in Hampshire, £4.5m BDBC (homeless services - £11m and £2.1m)

HCC – What did they do?

2013/14 - Disbanded SP by:• “mainstreaming” major service areas into

HCC commissioning• Applying a 31% cut to the budget from

2015• Reviewing arrangements for commissioning

remaining (“residual”) services from 2016• Devising a formula for re-distributing

money• Declared no funding for homeless family

hostels

Impact for BDBC?

• Significant and disproportionate reduction and/or of capacity, and key services

• May Place to become a geographical “hub” for single homeless

• Loss of localness - added value, influence and opportunity for flexibility

• Threat to locally established partnerships and relationships

Our Alternative Approach

- Proportionate Grant Allocation from HCC- Strategic Review service re-design- Sensible Commissioning- Re-igniting local partnerships and

relationships- Re-emphasising shared agendas and

priorities – homelessness is everybody's business

- Pooled budgets, shared priorities

At the same time…

• Welfare Reform• Increases in demand (accommodation and

support)• Pressures on causes of homelessness• Other public sector funding reductions• Legislative case law changes• Downturn in supply• Changing landscape for Housing

Associations and providers

From rescue to recovery!

• 3 year HCC grant allocation - £746k pa starting April 2016

• Optimising capacity and generating efficiencies

• Joint Working and pooling resources / skills (pilot initiatives to evidence business case)

• Social Enterprise and revenue generation• ….and a new homeless hostel model!

It could be only BDBC!

• Timeliness (wider devolution and combined authority debates)

• Innovative (but not rocket science)• Value of constructive cross corporate

working• Value of [political] consensus• Recognition of need for right resources• Ideas and positivity are self perpetuating

We’ll keep you posted!