Housing, Care and Support: Volume 3 Issue 4

Editorial: Partnership — Is it worth it?

Maurice Harker

An overview of the Supporting People programme

Steve Griffiths

Supporting People All the Way, a review for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by Steve Griffiths, examines the Supporting People programme in the context of other government plans…

Supporting People: How will it work in practice?: Briefing on the DETR consultation paper: Decision‐Making Processes and Working Arrangements

Housing associations' monitoring of managing agents: Managing in a changing environment

Tristan Wood

The recent publication Framework for Performance Assessment for RSLs working with Managing Agents (Housing Corporation, 2000a) contains new guidance for registered social…

Brief encounter

This article is produced from the shared experience of architects and surveyors at Survey & Design. It outlines some typical weaknesses in the briefs provided by housing…

Effectiveness and accountability in supported housing: What does it mean in practice?

Kate Mcallister

As supported housing providers prepare for Supporting People over the next two and a half years, we recognise how important it is not to lose sight of the need to ensure that…

Reshaping services — a practical example: Moving from a local authority hostel to supported housing

Richard Woolrych

How does a local authority re‐provide for 26 residents with learning difficulties living in a hostel run by social services which fails to comply with current standards? This case…

The Care Standards Act 2000

Lynn Murray, Linda Convery