Housing, Care and Support: Volume 3 Issue 2

Editorial

Maurice Harker

Supporting people in mainstream housing: Good practice guidance on housing and services for people with support needs

Sarah Edwards

Local housing authorities are responsible for meeting the priority housing and support needs of the local community, regardless of tenure. Under the Government's policies to…

Housing, public health and community care: A proposal to improve the well‐being of older people

Lyn Harrison, Frances Heywood

The establishment of community care principles should have led to increased provision of independence‐enhancing housing services to older people, but the trend has been in the…

The Care Standards Bill ‐ opportunity or cause for concern?: A commentary and comparison with the Registered Homes Act 1984

Linda Convery

Are organisations prepared to rethink principles as well as practice?

Bill Puddicombe

The article suggests ways in which the concepts contained in best value can be used to review the quality and effectiveness of social care services and in particular those…

Developing housing and support standards in supported housing: How in practice can organisations providing supported housing assess ‘best value’?

Jackie Clarke

What counts as a good set of standards to test performance? Two and a half years ago a planning team made up of practitioners from the various projects and regions met to decide…

From pillar to post: Failing to meet the support and housing needs of vulnerable people

Matthew Waters

Shelter recently published a report, From Pillar To Post: Failing to meet the support and housing needs of vulnerable people, which showed just how important it is that agencies…

Preventive approaches in housing: <i>National research shows housing as central to the prevention agenda</i>

Jeremy Porteus

The report Preventive Approaches in Housing follows a year‐long study looking at effective approaches in 16 housing settings, from sheltered and general needs housing, both RSL…