Housing, Care and Support: Volume 5 Issue 2

Support — v.tr. carry weight, prop up, keep from falling

Maurice Harker

Towards thriving neighbourhoods?

Alison Jarvis

Community and individual: Two perspectives on inclusion and vulnerability

Lynn Watson

This paper produced for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation explores the connections between different strands of current social policy: support to strengthen and stabilise communities…

Neighbourhoods under stress: Is there a sense of community?

Gerard Lemos

How can policy and practice move beyond the physical location of people within a neighbourhood to the more challenging task of integrating lives within a ‘community’? This article…

Future imperfect: King's Fund inquiry report on recruitment and retention of staff 2001

Care staff recruitment and retention: What is happening in the independent care sector?

Stephen O'Kell

This article is based on a project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (O'Kell, 2002), which has been undertaken to provide a snapshot of the issues affecting the independent…

Training together: The logical answer for joined‐up practice?

Paul Smith

The Training Together report was commissioned and written by Housing Potential UK (HPUK) and funded by the Department for Local Government and the Regions. The remit was to…

Pay, people and professional development

Nicola Youern, Shirley Lim

Following a period of consultation, Southern Focus Trust implemented a skills‐related pay system (SRP) in April 2001. The system moved away from a traditional incremental scheme…

Service users and electronic service delivery in social housing, housing‐related support and social care

Nicholas Pleace, Deborah Quilgars

This article reports on research into the introduction of electronic service delivery (ESD) by social landlords, social services and charities conducted during 2000‐2001 which…