Housing, Care and Support: Volume 5 Issue 4

The shadow strategy: Delivering accessibility with fairness at all levels on a regular basis

Maurice Harker

Housing for young people: New developments in legislation, ways of working and prevention

Alastair Jackson

This article looks at some of the housing issues facing young people. It summarises recent legislative changes and considers the challenge posed by the Homelessness Act to develop…

Housing advice for older people: Research review, government policy and the need for housing advice

Jenny Pannell, Imogen Blood

This briefing paper was commissioned by Help the Aged to inform a meeting held earlier this year. The recommendations from that meeting are summarised at the end of the briefing…

Local housing strategies for people with learning disabilities: Creating a plan that survives its publication

Ken Whitehouse

The White Paper on learning disability has asked housing and social services to work together to expand housing, care and support options. The DoH and ODPM have recently issued…

Home technology systems

Guy Dewsbury, Karen Clarke, Mark Rouncefield, Ian Sommerville

This paper considers the design of technology in domestic, or home, settings. The systems themselves have become increasingly complex and the need for dependable systems…

Assessing performance (1): An outcome monitoring model

Joanne Dutton

Measuring the outcomes of supporting housing is increasingly a concern for all supported housing providers. In the light of Supporting People and its implementation in April 2003…

Assessing performance (2): Reviewing the sheltered housing service

Mark Reeves, Lyn Thompson

Supporting People, in conjunction with Best Value, creates an urgent requirement for those who manage sheltered housing to review the services they provide. Both the wider…

Assessing performance (3): A resettlement service for homeless and vulnerable parents

Victoria Tischler, Peter Gregory

The aim of the research described in this paper was to examine the housing and resettlement needs of homeless and vulnerably housed parents, in order to inform the development of…