Housing, Care and Support: Volume 1 Issue 1

Housing, care and support: Putting good ideas into practice

An Elizabethan age: A trail of ideas and initiative

It is worth remembering, when we feel dispirited over the housing provision we can offer to the excluded today, just what it was like forty years ago ‐ and how important it is to…

Mental health policy and housing: Why housing is vital in the management of mental health

Homelessness makes mental health problems worse, but inappropriate housing can be damaging, too. We need to be flexible and supportive in our provision, offering options for both…

Hospital reprovision and the Private Finance Initiative: Is the PFI the best way to use private finance for supported housing?

Research demonstrates that the PFI process in its current form is not well designed for the procurement of housing and residential care within the Health Service. This paper draws…

Where there's no vision, the people perish (Proverbs): Why we need to keep the quality in quality assurance

Management is not easy in an environment of continual change, and it is fatally easy to adopt a ‘quick fix’ approach to the problems created by new initiatives. Many organisations…

Linking housing and health: Is there a role for councils and registered social landlords?

Moving forward the debate on links between housing and health is a formidable task. Government willingness to address the connections is only the beginning. Much hard work, of…

Housing and joint commissioning: A challenge for the year 2000

Involvement of local housing authorities in commissioning of community care services is recognised as an important objective. This paper describes how two housing and community…

Housing Benefit for supported housing: Who should pay for supported and sheltered housing?

His paper looks at the implications of a judicial review last July of four cases concerned with the eligibility of service charges for Housing Benefit funding. It explains why the…

Tenant, lodger, patient?: The legal status of residents in supported housing

This article is particularly concerned with residents who fall short of the test of contractual capacity, that is, of understanding the nature of the contract they are entering…

Tenant participation in supported housing