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Making it work for us: a residents' inquiry into sheltered and retirement housing
- Author:
- AGE UK
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is designed to encourage wider policy engagement with older residents on the management and future delivery of sheltered and retirement housing in England. It sets out issues for providers, commissioners, policymakers and central government, from a resident’s perspective. It seeks to support the development of a coherent, balanced national strategy on retirement housing, where older people have real influence. The panel of residents, who reviewed the situation for England, concluded that we need greater investment in affordable, attractive housing options – integrated with housing support services and in the right locations. The panel believes that progress towards this goal is being impeded by a range of factors, identified during the inquiry and set out in this report.
Government response to the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee report into the supporting people programme
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Communities and Local Government
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In November 2009 the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee published its report on the Supporting People Programme. The Committee looked at the extent to which the Government has delivered on the commitments it made in Independence and Opportunity: Our Strategy for Supporting People, and the implications of the removal of the ringfence to see what needs to be done to ensure that the successes of the programme are not lost. The Committee’s report endorsed the Government’s decision to remove the ringfence in order to devolve decision making and control over budgets to the local level, and also acknowledged the success of the Supporting People programme in ‘investing to save’ money. This report provides the Government’s response to the Committee’s report. It lists the various recommendations made in the report followed by the Government’s response broken down into the following areas: keeping people at the heart of the programme; enhancing partnership with the third sector; delivering in the new local government landscape; increasing efficiency and reducing bureaucracy; sheltered housing; Supporting People distribution formula; and the ringfence.
Sure Start services for older people
- Author:
- HOLLYWOOD Michele
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 10(3), September 2006, pp.31-33.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The government has announced an ideal to adapt and develop the Sure Start model for children to cater for socially excluded older people. The author examines sheltered housing's contribution towards this new service development and how it may benefit all older people, not just the vulnerable.
Supply-side review of the UK specialist housing market and why it is failing older people
- Author:
- HARDING Andrew J.E.
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 21(2), 2018, pp.41-50.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a supply-side review of policies and practices that impact on the shortage of supply in the contemporary specialist housing market for older people in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: The review is based on a review of academic literature, policy documents, reports and other sources. Findings: There is a critical conflict between the key social purpose of specialist housing (i.e. living independent of socially provided care) and the values that underpin and ultimately limit the quantity of units in both the social and private sector. In the social sector, government policies prohibit rather than encourage local authorities and housing associations from increasing specialist housing stock. The nature of leasehold tenures in the private sector tends to commodify not only housing stock but also those who use it and therefore acts to instrumentalise housing supply in favour of the profit motive and the focus on the person and her or his needs is largely ignored. Originality/value: While the shortage of specialist housing is well known, this paper is unique in that it provides a comprehensive and critical supply-side review of the factors that have created such conditions. (Publisher abstract)
Funding for supported housing: Government response to two consultations
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- London
Summarises responses to two joint consultations on the design of the new funding models for the housing costs for supported accommodation and outline the full Government response. One consultation related to sheltered and extra care housing and the other related to short-term supported accommodation. The consultation proposals included an enhanced regulatory regime for sheltered and extra care housing (‘Sheltered Rent’), and a ring-fenced, local authority administered grant for short-term provision. The results include that the Government will not be pursuing the Sheltered Rent model for sheltered and extra care housing in the upcoming consultation on the Rent Standard Direction. In addition the Government will continue to maintain housing benefit for all supported housing, including short term supported housing. (Edited publisher abstract)
The Supporting People programme: thirteenth report of session 2008-09: volume 1: report, together with formal minutes
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Communities and Local Government Committee
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 90p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Supporting People programme, launched in April 2003, aims to help end social exclusion and enable vulnerable people to achieve independence through the provision of housing-related support. This report considers how the Government, local authorities, and their partners have delivered against the aims of the Supporting People strategy. Evidence was received from stakeholders during 4 oral evidence sessions and from written memoranda from over 100 witnesses. The report is structured around each of the Supporting People strategy’s 4 themes: keeping people that need services at the heart of the programme; enhancing partnership with the Third Sector; delivering in the new local government landscape; and increasing efficiency and reducing bureaucracy. It also gives particular consideration to the issue of sheltered housing for older people. In April 2009, the ringfence on funding for the Supporting People programme was lifted and, from April 2010, funding will be paid through the ‘Area Based Grant’, so that local authorities are able to spend the money as they see fit. The report discusses concerns regarding the lifting of the ringfence, and the resulting uncertainty about the future impact of changes to the funding regime. The report concludes with a number of conclusions and recommendations.
The Supporting People programme: thirteenth report of session 2008-09: volume 2: oral and written evidence
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Communities and Local Government Committee
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Pagination:
- 236p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This second volume of a United Kingdom House of Commons ‘Communities and Local Government Committee’ report on the Supporting People programme presents oral evidence in the form of minutes taken on 8,15, and 29 June and 6 July 2009, covering some 363 questions to 34 witnesses. Written evidence from 32 sources is presented along with a listing of evidence presented and considered but not printed in this report. Also catalogued are reports from the committee made during the current parliament from 2005-2009. This volume should be read in conjunction with Volume 1, which details the actual report and formal minutes. These two volumes come just as the loss of protective ring-fenced funding places uncertainty over the Supporting people programme’s future.
Voice of older people: annual report 2008-09
- Author:
- BAKEWELL Joan
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Government Equalities Office
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is written by Joan Bakewell in her capacity as the Government’s Voice of Older People. It is an informal report, setting out the most important issues that have reached her in her year in the position, her response to them, and the ways that the Government is moving to improve the situation. The issues that she has been contacted about most are: domiciliary care; council tax and local government including the closure of public toilets; modern technology; the NHS’s treatment of the elderly and end of life care; retirement age; pensions for both UK residents and expatriates; and sheltered housing and care homes. Joan describes how, using her experience as a journalist and broadcaster, she has been raising awareness of these issues. The report also provides information on Government initiatives to improve the lives of older people including the Equality Bill and the Building a Society for All Ages strategy.
Nobody's listening: the impact of floating support on older people living in sheltered housing
- Authors:
- KING Nigel, PANNELL Jenny, COPEMAN Ian
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 91p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research report seeks to ascertain how support in sheltered housing is changing across England, paying special attention to the views of older people as tenants. It takes as its starting point the introduction of the 'Supporting People' regulations in 2003. It investigates the ways in which the provision of residential warden services for sheltered housing are being replaced by care workers acting as 'floating support' that is not permanently based at a particular site. Using interviews and focus groups this research considers older people's experiences and views, those of local authorities and providers of sheltered housing. It also includes practice examples of this type of service change in several local authorities and concludes with some recommendations for ways forward.