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Hello, and welcome to the Home Page for the ADASS Housing Network. We aim to represent the Association on all major issues as they impact on housing and our adult service users. Within our Network we have a special focus on Supporting People and take a careful interest and overview of developments in sheltered care and FACS issues as they arise for users and carers. At the last count well over 50 per cent of  DASSs had housing responsibilities reflecting the growing importance of linking housing and caring to other agencies within and beyond the local authority.  

To access latest news, views and tools on housing with care matters, ADASS is pleased to support the Housing LIN.  Visit their comprehensive online resources at www.housinglin.org.uk

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LATEST NEWS, VIEWS, DOCUMENTS & MORE...

A Better Offer for Older People - Making extra care housing work for your community

Enabling older people to live independently in the community for as long as possible is a goal with which few people, if any, would disagree. It is what we all hope will be the case for ourselves, for our loved ones and indeed for all older people. However if that is to become the case a one-size-fits-all approach will not suffice. Supporting independence for older people with care needs requires multiple solutions and approaches. This is why ADASS is pleased to bring you this think piece report, which has been made possible through sponsorship from Mears. The report examines the potential models and challenges of extra care housing.  

LGA/ADASS Joint Response to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department for Work and Pensions Supported Housing Consultations

Key Messages

1. Supported housing provides a vital bridge between housing, support, health and care. It helps people to live fulfilled and independent lives, engaged with local communities and with positive outcomes. It reduces cost pressures on public services by keeping people out of more costly health and care settings and providing the necessary support to address issues that might otherwise prevent independent living.

Putting Older People First in the North West

This vision document from the Housing LIN’s NW Leadership Set outlines a whole system approach to meeting housing, health and wellbeing outcomes for our older populations in the region. It provides useful information on the key characteristics of an ageing population across the North West and highlights some of the system pressures faced by those involved in the housing, health and care of older people between now and 2030. To demonstrate how local health and social care economies are tacking these, it presents a broad range of practical housing and related technology enabled examples of initiatives to tackle the current and future challenges in the region.

Consultation on the funding for supported housing

Consultation response form ADASS on the funding for supported housing. Supported housing plays a significant role in the health & social care system supporting people to live independent lives, with reduced need for care services and therefore can provide significant cost savings. Given the ageing population and increase in adults with disabilities, an ongoing expansion in supported housing provision is much needed. Any change that threatens existing provision and fails to support the required expansion in the sector is of great concern...

Prevention and the Disabled Facilities Grants

Paul Smith, the Director of Foundations, the national body for home adaptations (and a member of the ADASS Housing Policy Network) has written this piece in relation to DFG's and reducing care home admissions. As budgets get ever tighter Directors are faced with the dilemma of needing to spend  money on services that meet immediate and pressing need whilst wanting to invest in those things that will deliver better outcomes for people and save money in the longer term. Housing solutions have a fundamental part to play in the prevention agenda and the increase in DFG funding as part of the BCF gives us an opportunity to take that longer view - but are Director's and their CCG partners convinced that the returns will follow the investment? Paul provides a thoughtful contribution to help Directors and encourages a wider view of how DFG's should be used.Neil Revely, ADASS Housing Co-Lead

ADASS Briefing Note on Housing Benefit and National Rent Reduction Policy

Briefing Note – Potential Impact of Housing Benefit/Rent Reduction Policy 

1.    There are three separate issues associated with capping of housing benefit:

  • The Benefit cap which defines a maximum income permitted from benefits (including Housing Benefit) for households.  There are exemptions for people with particular benefits, and also for people living in certain types of housing, including supported housing – “specialised” and “exempt” housing.
  • Capping of social housing rents at Local Housing Allowance levels.  In the comprehensive spending review 2015 (CSR), the Government outlined their plans to extend Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to social landlords – (impact for supported housing, specialised and exempt housing).  Currently social landlords are not included in LHA.  Tenancies signed from April 2016, to take effect from April 2018.
  • A required 1% rent reduction per year in social housing sector for the next four years. On 27th January it was announced in the House of Lords that this will be deferred for a year for supported housing. The Government confirmed that the 1% Rent Reduction which was due to come in on the 1st April 2016 will not apply to supported housing for a year, while the Government looks at the findings of a review of supported housing.  This delays the impact, but does not solve the problem.

Improving Health and Care through the home: A National Memorandum of Understanding

Improved Health and Care Through the Home - a renewed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), sets out why organisations urgently need to work better together.It reflects on the success of previous cross sector commitments which have led to housing solutions being at the centre of improving health and supporting acute health and care services meet growing demands.The 2018 MoU commits all the signatories to build on previous successes to ensure that more joint working across housing, care and health services can impact positively on the experience of a greater number of people needing and using health and care services. In particular, it aims to...