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Neighbourhoods with resilience to care: a viewpoint on developing the contributions of housing services for adults at risk of exclusion
- Authors:
- APPLETON Nigel, MOLYNEUX Peter
- Publisher:
- DH Care Networks. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
To improve the lives of adults who are at risk of exclusion, it is imperative to implement appropriate housing and related services. Inappropriate housing can reduce the ability of people with poor health or a disability to lead independent lives and participate in the community. As such, the providers of housing and housing related support have had a key role to play in the achievement of Public Service Agreement (PSA) 16 targets. This paper seeks to show those seeking to make a difference for people in these groups, be they commissioners, providers, tenants or service users, how they can use different structures to deliver health and well-being outcomes. The paper describes how the successful delivery of PSA 16 is going to require strategic planning across regional, sub-regional and local planning structures and the joint commissioning and procurement of services. This means that the successful delivery of PSA 16 is going to depend on a number of strategies coming together: the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment; Strategic Housing Market Assessment which is the local authority’s assessment of how the local housing market is functioning and an estimate of the housing and housing related support needs of vulnerable groups in the local area; and the Local Strategic Partnership, Local Area Agreement and the link to that from the Supporting People Commissioning Body.