Partnerships and Local Communities: The Supported Housing Perspective

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Partnerships and Local Communities The Supported
Housing Perspective

• Tom Surrey
• Housing Care Support Division
• Communities Local Government
• 14 February 2008

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What is the SP programme?

• It is a successful cross-cutting, preventative
  programme launched in 2003, to fund housing
  related support
• The Government has invested over 8.7bn since the
  Programme began, and is a key funding stream for
  tackling social exclusion
• Commissioned through local partnerships between
  local authorities, housing, health and probation
  service
• Delivered by statutory and voluntary sector
• 6,000 providers
• SP programme helps over 1m vulnerable people to
  live independently each year

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Investment in Prevention
Avoiding the need for residential care
Care with support 62,000 Units 507m
Preventing homelessness rough sleeping
Preventing AE admission for frail older people
Socially Excluded 159,000 Units 821m
Independence with support 843,000 Units 315m
Teenage parent back onto path of success
Based on 2006/7 spend data
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Local Government White Paper

• Strong and Prosperous Communities set out the
  Governments commitment to ensure more
  flexibility and responsibility to authorities and
  their partners to respond to local need and
  improve the quality of life for citizens.
• Supporting People will take forward this
  commitment by delivering the administration grant
  through Area Based Grant (ABG) from April 2008,
  and conducting a real world test of delivering
  the programme grant through ABG, in time for
  April 2009.
• Delivery through ABG will remove the ringfence
  and so increase flexibility in how funds are used
  to meet local needs, as set out in Local Area
  Agreements, more effectively.

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Delivering in the new local government landscape
Managing Performance

• New national indicator set embeds delivery of
  housing support in the mainstream. Includes two
  current KPIs
• NI 141 Number of vulnerable people achieving
  independent living
• NI 142 Number of vulnerable people who are
  supported to maintain independent living
• Number of other indictors that are relevant to
  vulnerable people, including (but not limited to)
  those relating to
• domestic violence,
• alcohol harm,
• re-offending,
• worklessness,
• use of temporary accommodation and
• the satisfaction of people over 65 with their
  home and neighbourhood.

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Influencing local priorities

• Evidence
• SP KPI baseline
• Audit Commission SP inspections
• Client Records and SP Outcomes set
• Service user groups can provide community voice
• Front line information on changing local needs
• Duty to involve
• Identifying local targets (i.e. non-designated
  targets which can be within or outside the NI set
  but will still form a full part of the LAA)

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Links with Health and Social Services (1)

• The DH White Paper Our health, our care, our say
  set out the direction to achieve
• better prevention and early intervention for
  improved health, independence and wellbeing
• more choice and a stronger voice for individuals
  and communities
• tackling inequalities and improving access to
  services
• more support for people with long term needs
• SP supports and achieves delivery of these goals,
  and enables other specialised interventions to
  work drug rehab programmes, health services,
  employment and training

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Links with Health and Social Services (2)

• Individual Budget Pilots, composing up to 6
  different income streams (including social care,
  Disabled Facility Grant and Supporting People)
  are well under way in 13 local authorities.
• Focussed on people who need long term support
  services
• People with physical disabilities
• People with learning disabilities
• Older people
• Mental Health
• Aim - To put the person who is supported, or
  given services, at the centre of the process and
  to give them the power to decide the nature of
  their own support, how the support is delivered
  and who delivers it.

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Links with Health and Social Services (3)

• Integrated needs assessment - there are 3 aspects
  of health and social care that housing and SP can
  be aligned with
• the needs assessment process and form
• support planning
• the commissioning process
• DH leading on Common Assessment Frameworks.
• We are exploring the inclusion of housing support
  in this to allow a persons health, social
  care and housing support needs to be assessed at
  the same time.
• Pilot to include SP underway in Nottingham.

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Assessing Local Needs

• Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, published by
  DH in 2007.
• Data, for example on local needs assessment, from
  authorities 5 Year Supporting People Strategy
  can be used to inform the JSNA
• Cap-Gemini study research into the financial
  benefits of the Supporting People programme
• Investment in Supporting People services avoids
  costs elsewhere, and therefore produces a net
  financial benefit.

Does your Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
include Supported Housing?
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Commissioning in Partnership

• SP commissions in partnership with local
  authorities, housing, health and probation
  service.
• 11 national Value Improvement Programme pilots
  (VIPs) completed - we are now disseminating the
  lessons learned from the VIP pilots 11
  efficiencies, 200 return on investment.
• VIP working to address conflicts and tensions
  around commissioning and procurement
• Encourage the adoption of good practice
  approaches including use of single model
  contracts for joint commissioning of service
  between health and social care and SP teams

Are you including service users in your
commissioning process?
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Benefits of Supporting People

• Financial benefits - investing in packages of
  support that include SP avoids costs elsewhere.
  Specifically, an investment of 1.55bn produced
  an estimated net financial benefit of 2.77bn
• Outcomes evidence national SP Outcomes
  framework developed and in use. Provides a
  measure of how successful housing support
  services are in meeting the needs of some of the
  most socially excluded individuals in England.
• E.g. 71 of people with drug problems who left
  housing support service between May 31st and Sept
  07 were successfully supported to better manage
  their physical health.
• Better services more tailored to meet local
  needs and priorities.

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Discussion Points

• Assessing Local Needs
• How would you include supported housing into your
  Joint strategic Needs Assessment?
• Commissioning in Partnerships
• Are you considering all partners, not just named
  partners?

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Find out more

• The Communities and Local Government website
• www.communities.gov.uk
• Capgemini Research http//www.communities.gov.uk/
  publications/housing/supportingpeoplefinance
• Supporting People Strategy
• www.spkweb.org.uk