Housing, Care and Support: Volume 1 Issue 4

Community care ‐ crackers or what?

Maurice Harker

Befriending and community care: ‘Nobody today has any time, have they?’

Jo Dean, Robina Goodlad

BEFRIENDING IS A VALUED form of support for people in receipt of community care services, and offers something which is qualitatively different from the support which paid staff…

Cornwall's approach to special needs accommodation development: The practical experience of joint working

Beth Mottart

CORNWALL SPECIAL NEEDS ACCOMMODATION panel (SNAP) is an established partnership between the six district council housing departments, social services, the district health…

The provision of housing, care and support in rural areas

Christine Oldman

POLICY GUIDANCE ON HOUSING and community care since 1990 has offered little analysis of the particular issues involved in developing housing and support to people living in rural…

Low‐cost, high‐quality services: Making ‘empowerment’ and ‘inclusion’ a reality

Carl Poll

CRITERIA FOR RESTRICTING ELIGIBILITY for social services present a bleak future for some people with a moderate learning disability and may have other social costs. There is…

Events Diary

Risk or opportunity? Risk management in supported housing

Andrew Holmes‐Smith

THERE ARE PLENTY OF risks in the supported housing sector. Some are ever‐present while others are peculiar to our times ‐ like the interdepartmental review of Housing Benefit and…

From Longcare to the White Paper

James Churchill

Housing options for people with a disability: Developing new ideas in practice

Bill Glynn

LIVING OUTSIDE RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTIONS is a goal for many people with learning disabilities. This paper outlines approaches that have been shown to be successful in achieving…