Through the leadership of a local voluntary agency, a consortium of voluntary and public sector organisations has achieved rapid growth in decent quality housing and support services, and promoted complementary daytime opportunities. This report is a brief narrative account of Southwark Consortium and first three years.
This publication offers guidelines for statutory and voluntary agencies on the preconditions to and ingredients of a quality housing and care support service for physically disabled people. It presents case histories from the project research, and documents some of the innovative schemes and services that are helping disabled adults to ...
This project paper has been written for staff concerned with resettling people who are being discharged from long-stay hospitals or who are developing housing schemes for people with serious psychiatric disabilities living in hostels or with their families. It attempts to distil the lessons from current examples of good practice ...
This is a review of recent British initiatives based upon the principles of "An ordinary life", for both children and adults with learning difficulties. Key issues discussed include establishing commitment to basic principles, planning comprehensive services, acquiring appropriate housing, financing and staffing the residential service, operational policies and management, staff ...
A summary of social characteristics in all district health authorities in England has not been published before. The items presented here are about children, the elderly, housing, migration and economic factors, and include a selection of composite scores. Similar information about electoral wards may be used to identify the most ...
The conference aimed to bring together practitioners in housing, social services and psychiatry; to explore the links and gaps, the successes and the failings; and to point out some signposts for future development of service to meet needs. In particular, the conference explored three themes: 1) the varying definitions of ...
This report describes aspects of the work of the Crossroads Care Attendant Schemes and looks particularly at the roles of the European Economic Community, the Department of the Environment and the Crossroads Housing and Supporting Care Project. The D.O.E. assisted in the development of guidelines for local authority architects on ...
This paper was commissioned by the UK government's Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) as part of its National Strategy for Housing in an Ageing Society., As the population ages, the prevalence of complex conditions requiring intensive social care will increase to a point where the costs are difficult to sustain. To avoid this crisis, preventive 'upstream' interventions should be targeted at those people at lower, emerging risk. Evidence suggests that these interventions could avoid future ..., and Copyright HMSO