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Supporting people: a new policy and funding framework for support services
— produced for the Inter-Departmental Review of Funding for Supported Accommodation by the Department of Social Security | | Corporate Author | Inter-Departmental Review of Funding for Supported Accommodation, Department of Social Security - DSS; DETR; DoH; HM Treasury; Home Office; Scottish Office; Welsh Office; Women's Unit |
| Publisher | Department of Social Security, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 74 pp |
| Source | Supporting People (PFS), Freepost (HA4441), Hayes UB3 1BR. Available on Internet: http://www.dss.gov.uk |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Sheltered housing ; Housing benefit [Nov 82] ; Community care ; Finance [care] ; Coordination ; Social policy ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | Current provision of support services in sheltered housing, and housing and support schemes enables a wide range of vulnerable people to maintain independent lives in the community. In this consultation, comments for which were sought by 5 February 1999, the Government proposes Supporting People, a policy and funding framework for delivering support to vulnerable people in different types of accommodation and tenure. The framework - proposed for commencement in April 2003 - would operate in combination with social services, housing and other policies to support people in the community. For the first time, it would put on a secure and legal footing, ad hoc funding formerly delivered through Housing Benefit, which was ruled unlawful in 1997. A time-limited, transitional Housing Benefit scheme will have wider coverage than existing regulations, to pay for support services during the interim period. There are differences in the way in which policy and funding arrangements will operate in England, Scotland and Wales, details of which are given in appendices. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990210202 B |
| Classmark | KE: KLA: JH8: PA: QC: QAJ: TM2: 6OA |
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