Housing Support

Individuals who become vulnerable may need support to enable them to continue living in their own homes. This support can take a wide variety of forms and is sometimes part of a wider package of health and social care. The resources listed below include policy and examples of good practice that should be helpful to commissioners and providers of such support services.

• Carers and Housing: Addressing their needs
  The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, with Department of Health support, launched the first national report on housing issues affecting the UK's six million unpaid family carers on 23rd March 2010 at...
• Delivering Social Inclusion - The role housing associations can play in PSA 16
  This guide highlights the role housing associations and support providers can play in delivering PSA 16. It looks at some of the opportunities and approaches that housing associations and local authorities...
• Putting People Centre Stage
  The aim of this Housing LIN Report and the accompanying case studies is to emphasise the real benefits to commissioners and providers of housing with care and support which arise from the genuine engagement...
• Unmet Housing related support needs in Wokingham
  This Housing LIN case study No26 describes research in Wokingham to determine housing support needs. It describes the options identified to meet the gaps in housing support needs across vulnerable groups...
• Housing with support and the efficiency agenda - a toolkit
  Published by Tribal Group this toolkit contains advice on achieving efficiency whilst maintaining or improving the quality of housing with support and floating support to people in general housing. The...
• Reducing re-offending housing and housing support framework
  Published by National Offender Management Service, this framework sets expectations for the work of Regional Offender Managers and regional Reducing Re-offending Partnership Boards' Accommodation Pathways....
• Durham Integrated Team - a practical guide
  This Housing LIN case study No19 describes the experience in Sedgefield Borough of establishing five integrated teams to for vulnerable adults to provide a single point of access to prevent illness,...
• Commissioning Housing Support for health and wellbeing
  This report commissioned by the Integrated Care Network explains what housing related support services are and the funding streams and national programmes they sit within. The role of housing related...
• Substance users and supported housing - what's the score?
  A Housing LIN Report comprising three linked reports which give an overview of the relationship between drug and alcohol service provision and the delivery of housing with support. The reports are designed...

Housing support can be offered as an integral part of a tenancy, lease or home ownership, for example in Extra Care or sheltered housing. You will find resources related to Extra Care (including sheltered housing) on the Extra Care pages.

You will also find some resources that are specific to particular service user groups on relevant pages (Dementia, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Learning Disability, Older People)