Housing Choices and Community Care

Hudson, Judith N; Watson, Lynn; Allan, Grant

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-26087-4_27

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“…The proposal's designs to facilitate co-operation and coordination between local authorities and statutory agencies, which should have housing provision as part of its agenda, are confined to the provision and quality of support services. Thus, the document fails to pick up earlier suggestions to integrate housing and support that will help overcome the recurrent problem of incomplete and inconsistent information provided by statutory agencies to tenants and prospective tenants about their choices and options (Hudson et al 1996).…”

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Funding Supported Accommodation: Financial and Administrative Implications of Reforming Housing Benefit

Cebulla

2001

Public Administration

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Government proposals to reform the funding of support services in Britain require local authorities to take stock of support schemes in their areas before a new single support budget will replace existing arrangements in April 2003. In the course of the transition, local authorities will also need to scrutinize supported accommodation charges in order to remove charges for services that are unlawfully paid for by Housing Benefit. This paper highlights likely problems in the identification of support schemes and in the estimation of the costs of services. The proposed tightening of the calculation of Housing Benefit will reduce entitlements to the majority of claimants in supported accommodation, many of whom are amongst the poorest people in the country. Efforts must be made to ensure that claimants facing a reduction in their payments are not faced by steady, or even rising, housing costs. In particular, tenants in schemes, which receive no funding under the new single budget, must be protected. The paper discusses the proposals' contribution to bringing housing and community care policies closer together.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Funding Supported Accommodation: Financial and Administrative Implications of Reforming Housing Benefit

Cebulla

2001

Public Administration

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“…Not all SSDs have policies to Ôtop upÕ DFGs in order to meet the full costs (Mackintosh & Leather 1994). Disabled people may have little control over the way that work is carried out: this can lead to poor quality work and unsuitable features, themselves potentially leading to stress and an adverse effect on a personÕs health (Hudson et al 1996). And even when adaptations are completed, they may not be sufficient to allow a person to live independently: Sapey (1995) notes that the lack of assistance from SSDs could thus be reinforcing peopleÕs dependency.…”

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“…Housing departments may seek to dissuade people from applying for housing. Hudson et al (1996) give the example of a young man having to go to considerable lengths to persuade a housing officer simply to hand over the forms to apply for housing. They also describe how a couple who had insufficient room in their flat to manoeuvre one wheelchair, let alone the two that they used, were told that the local authority did not have any suitable alternative properties; as a result, they did not apply for a transfer.…”

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“…They also describe how a couple who had insufficient room in their flat to manoeuvre one wheelchair, let alone the two that they used, were told that the local authority did not have any suitable alternative properties; as a result, they did not apply for a transfer. Refusing an unsuitable offer could lead to a personÕs name being removed from the waitinglist (Disabled PeopleÕs Accommodation Agency 1995, Hudson et al 1996), or the timescale in which to accept an offer could be too short for people to make the necessary arrangements to move, especially when financial barriers mean they cannot easily obtain the furniture and equipment they need (Hudson et al 1996). In addition, some allocation systems discriminate against occasional wheelchair users (Disabled PeopleÕs Accommodation Agency 1995).…”

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The housing needs of disabled people

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Pleace

1998

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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This paper presents the results from a study of the housing needs of disabled people in Shropshire. The study involved interviews with disabled people, representatives of a county-wide disabled people's organization, and staff from social services, housing and health agencies. A questionnaire was sent to a sample of disabled people in the county, and quantitative data were examined. The study highlighted: the high level of unmet housing need amongst disabled people, in relation to both adaptations and more appropriate housing; the need for more involvement by disabled people in the planning and provision of services; the need for greater flexibility within the housing regulations, so that services are more responsive to people's individual needs; and the inadequacy of the resources currently available to meet those needs.

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“…Means & Smith (1996) suggest that many people who receive care and support prefer to live in ordinary housing and to use mainstream services, a finding reinforced by McCafferty’s (1994) survey of the housing needs of older and disabled people, and Means (1997). There is also considerable evidence that people with mental health problems and people with learning disabilities generally want their own home with support services provided there (for example, Kay & Legg 1986, Petch 1992, Hudson et al . 1996 ), although Cooper et al .…”

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Housing: the foundation of community care?

Bochel

Page

1999

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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Until the late 1980s community care was traditionally the preserve of the health and social care agencies that dominated the planning and provision of care. Since then it has increasingly been recognized that housing should also play a major role in community care. This has been apparent in official guidance and statements, in some of the more innovative forms of community care provision, and in some of the academic literature. Yet the advancement of the housing dimension of community care in the 1980s has arguably become as much of a bland truism as the idea of community care itself has always been. What has remained largely absent from the debate is a considered and critical view of the meaning and potential role of housing in community care, or - more specifically - an agreed vision of the benefits a housing orientation can bring to the quality of community care. This article draws together many strands of the argument. It critically examines the emergence and development of the idea of housing as a 'key' component - even the 'foundation' - of community care, identifying some of the reasons why the housing dimension has risen from a seriously marginalized position to the central role which it is now often suggested it should occupy. The authors conclude by arguing that, whilst some progress has been made, a fundamental shift in thinking is still required at many levels. They suggest that community care users have consistently claimed that housing is the first essential component of effective community care. What is needed is for other participants in the community care process to endorse and develop an ordinary housing approach to community care, in which housing is genuinely accepted as the vital component and which can be translated into practice. This fuller recognition of the housing contribution must embrace meanings which can be agreed, understood and operationalized by the main participants in community care.

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Housing Choices and Community Care

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Funding Supported Accommodation: Financial and Administrative Implications of Reforming Housing Benefit

Funding Supported Accommodation: Financial and Administrative Implications of Reforming Housing Benefit

The housing needs of disabled people

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