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Education and training in housing related support: the extent of continuing vocational education and training in integrated housing and support in the EU
- Authors:
- PLEACE Nicholas, MITCHELL Wendy
- Publisher:
- University of York. Department of Social Policy and Social Work
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 42
- Place of publication:
- York
Report describing the results of a scoping exercise to determine the range and nature of vocational education and training (CVET) on the management and delivery integrated housing and support services (IHS). The scoping exercise was designed to support the European Core Learning Outcomes for the Integration of Support and Housing (ELOSH) project, which is focused on developing new CVET to improve the delivery of housing and support services for disabled people, people with mental health needs and those homeless people who have support needs. The research focused particularly on the impact of training on service users' choice and control, and also training focused on enabling social integration to improve, quality of life, health and wellbeing and enabling independent living through promoting personalisation of services. For the scope searches on specialist databases and a survey of organisations which represented providers of housing and support across the EU were conducted. The report provides background to the development and nature of IHS service provision for disabled people, people with mental health needs and homeless people who have support needs; discusses the results of the scoping exercise on the nature and extent of IHS training available in the EU and elsewhere; and discussing the implications of the findings of the scoping exercise for the ELOSH project. The scope identified a small number of supported housing accredited courses. Evidence suggests that IHS services are concentrate in Northern and North Western Europe, with training provision for practitioners is frequently generalist covering general principles of supported housing, with less training around specific groups of clients and consideration of their needs. (Edited publisher abstract)