Housing, Care and Support: Volume 2 Issue 3

Your choice or mine?

Maurice Harker

Does best value help?: Another bureaucratic burden or the dynamo for change?

Paul Corrigan

FOR MANY PEOPLE IN the world of social care, best value can appear to be yet another management burden, wrapped with the grey wrapping paper of bureaucracy and all tied up with…

Planning in partnership: Establishing a practical structure and building on results

Andrew Reynolds

AT THE CORE OF supported housing policy lies the requirement that local authority housing and social service departments work together to deliver housing care and support. Health…

Viable systems for planning: A case study on needs and planning for supported housing

Mark Foord, Paul Simic, Hilary Bartles, Judith Ingham

SUPPORTING PEOPLE HAS GIVEN a new urgency to discussions of needs analysis, strategic planning and the user voice. This article explores a two‐year research project developed by…

Rethinking service commissioning relationships: Partners or protagonists?

Ken Whitehouse

THE PRESENT COMMISSIONING CLIMATE needs a rethink. Can it deliver the Government's new welfare and housing agenda which relies on ‘joined‐up’ thinking between all parts of the…

Tenant participation in housing and support: The findings from case studies

Fenella Starkey

SERVICE USER PARTICIPATION IN housing and support is an important issue in national services. Nonetheless, research has found wide variations in the levels of service user…

Coping with complex needs: Managing competing demands

Grania Jenkins

SUPPORTED HOUSING SCHEMES ARE required to provide services to a growing number of people with severe and diverse problems. These clients pose great challenges to services; not…

The preventative approach

Peter Fletcher

NATIONAL RESEARCH PROMOTING WELL‐BEING: Developing a preventive approach with older people shows housing as a central part of the preventive agenda. Research launched by the…

Choice and control: in supported housing

Alison Jarvis