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Sustaining disabled people in the community: does supported housing offer a real choice?
- Author:
- WOOD Heather
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 16(3), September 2004, pp.185-196.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Sustaining people with disabilities in the community has been the thrust of social policy since the 1980s. This has led to the development of a variety of approaches to the provision of supported housing, all with a common goal of offering disabled people greater choice and control over their lives. Considers a small research study exploring the extent to which current service provision offers disabled people greater choice and control over available housing solutions, focused on the views of clients accessing housing services from a specialist charitable trust which had undergone a fundamental shift in housing provision for disabled people, moving away from residential care towards more community-based supported-living schemes. Identifies areas where improvements appear to have been made, but also identifies weaknesses in current types of provision and limitations in the housing choices individuals may have available..