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Welcome to Support Solutions:

We are an established national Consultancy, Revenue, Coaching and Training Agency with a track record approaching 20 years. We are acknowledged expert consultants in the Personalisation agenda (see our latest Personalisation Agenda Briefing here) and Personalisation Training, Local Area Agreements, Supporting People, Social Care and Tendering for contracts. As you would expect we have an excellent working knowledge of the entire "territory" of housing related support and social care. We are aware of the fundamental change taking place within the sector, especially the Personalisation agenda, and are focussing on work with providers and commissioners of services for vulnerable people which helps them to adjust to the new housing support & social care environment.

Support Solutions has developed strong values and beliefs which motivate what we do. We now influence the social policy  agenda at national level because we disseminate high quality research and information throughout the sector and to national and local statutory authorities. Furthermore, we do this for FREE, primarily through our highly regarded Housing Support & Social Care Briefing. Our thinking is received and used by clients, colleagues, local and national government, competitors and imitators alike.

Support Solutions can legitimately claim to combine both national recognition and reputation with personalised and individual attention to the needs of our clients. This is what defines us and sets us apart.

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Support Solutions Blog: September 2010

 

 Fairer deals for Travellers who "play by the rules"

Sanctuary Schemes for Households at Risk of DV

The Great British Care Awards recognises unpaid work

Labour's commission calls for alcohol 'floor price'

Alcohol campaigners call for radical shake-up of duty system

Problem drinking shows up north-south England divisions

Call on business to improve disabled access pre 2012 Games

Social care asked to fund masseuse sex visit

Scope warns cuts will further marginalise disabled people

Drink, drugs and uneasy hypocrisy

Domestic Violence Special Edition of LDAN News

Harrow develop on-line market stalls Individual Budget users

Older and disabled people face wave of care charge rises

Government urged to put need before nationality

The refused asylum seekers living against the clock

Super-strength alcohol 'is killing more homeless than drugs

Cuts undermine David Cameron's 'big society', says Labour

The Bradford taxi driver who doubled as a bounty hunter

Care leavers need financial support to help go to university

Homeless people give an alternative guide to London

Big society threatened by lack of volunteers

The trouble with mental health treatment

Drug addicts are not to blame for their plight

12% increase in drug-related deaths

No single solution for homelessness

Cameron to push ahead with 'cold turkey' drug policy 

2010 Drug strategy consultation paper c/d 30/9/10

Porchlight launches health scheme

Nightmare journey to Civvy Street

Study links stress and dementia

Service users unaffected by care providers going bust ?

Homeless entrepreneurs set to Sparkle

Why is it easier to start a youth gang than a youth club?

Homelessness enquiry for Wales

New guidance for inspectors and assessors

Free e-learning resource for 'end of life care'

Care providers to be stuck with poor ratings until May

Drug addicts must quit under radical new strategy

Youth Justice Board set to be scrapped within a year

Breaking the taboo -mental health crisis among Britains gays

Videos+Games driving hate crimes against the homeless

Crude tender process exposing women and children to DV

IDS has secured a £3bn fund to meet costs of Benefit reform

Reforms will fall short protecting young people from alcohol

Edwina Hart to ask for powers on alcohol licensing for Wales

Life-saving' alcohol treatment centre no longer used by NHS

Children fear parental drug and alcohol use, ChildLine finds

Sex and personal budgets coverage may hinder social work

Graduate tutors help former offenders escape cycle of crime

Asylum seekers to have their legal aid axed as MoJ seeks cut

Hard of hearing people wanted for TV noise study
Free Autism information+Advice service launched

Happiness motivates more than 40% of Volunteers

Anti Bullying Charity faces closure

Consultation: evaluating the extent of rough sleeping

Mencap launches new phone helpline: Mencap Direct

Equality Act 2010 - guidance for service Providers and SU's

Incapacity benefits - reassessing claims

UK Older People's Day 1st October 2010

Disabled could lose homes through mortgage aid cuts says NHF

Youth unemployment rising in most regions, TUC study shows

Smmer Camp launches for Young Hospice Patients

OCS Announces Budget Cuts for Strategic Partners

Grasping the nettle: alcohol and domestic violence

Addiction: Rewriting the Dictionary

No safe level for Teenage binge drinkers

Billions In Benefits Paid to 90,000 Alcoholics+Drug Addicts

Ageing population - possible responses from USA

Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer's

Putting sex on the personal budget

Fear of learning disability 'institutionalisation' unfounded

Young disabled to be consulted

Small charities bear the brunt of cuts despite big society pledge 

Hughes seeks clarification on dormant account funds

Sport is an option for disabled people, says strategy

An alternative (psychoanalysis) view on "choice"

Thousands die alone without support, council report finds

Derbyshire set to cut support for users with moderate needs

Bounty hunters to cut benefit fraud by £1bn  

Problem is more than the substances, it's prohibition itself

Social Care workers urged to work with housing

Unique chance to rethink drugs policy

The Evolutionary Calculus of Depression

Young carers get support from Secret Millionaire

Better access to advocates urged for adult placement users

One in three charities have no reserves

Public health is coming home

'Big society' is a big fat lie - just follow the money

Cameron shifts drug addicts treatment to live-in schemes

Priory Group joins with 3rd sector to improve SU involvement 

A voice and choice for young people's mental health

HB reforms will lead to "onslaught on the vulnerable

Funding boost for personal health budgets pilot

Opportunities' for charities in GP budget reform

DWP Minister "we will protect subcontractor charities"

National Citizen Service pilots- commissioning process opens

May scraps power to ban domestic abusers from victims' homes 

Mental health: The invisible illness

Being young isn't always easy

Scotland among world's worst for drug abuse

Our Drugs War - Watch now Channel 4

Guidance on policing new psychoactive substances

Big society boost for NHS enterprises

Procurement guide for commissioners of NHS-funded services  

DoH response to suggestions re 'social care and disability'

Commissioners support mergers and collaborations

Govt asks charities+SE's for ideas on reducing the deficit

Personalisation - What's housing got to do with it?  

A Dizzying Array of Substances a ethnographic study

DfE bans charities from publicising their work

Licence recalls and returns to custody

Big Local Trust

Conservative think-tank urges NHS takeover of care funding

The social care commission is on the right track

£11m Cabinet cuts hit social enterprise

Why do we so wilfully cover-up failure of the war on drugs?

Duncan Smith unveils radical benefit reforms - consultation

Justice minister undecided on role of youth offending teams

Help at hand for central and eastern european homeless 

Fears public health may be hit in shake-up of NHS

College students' alcohol-related social norms in Sefton

Help improve care services for adults with autism

Further education 'helps sufferers cope with dementia'

Rough sleeping advisors axed

Cuts of £11m to Capacitybuilders, v and Compact
Still doubts about voluntary org's ability to run services

Draconian incapacity benefit tests are failing the sick

Mental health diagnoses mask the real problems

Autism Charity aims to set legal precedents

Homeless People's song hits the Web

Default retirement age is retired !

Refreshing the national Carers Strategy - call for evidence

Moving beyond the ASBO - Home Office 28 Jul 2010

Up to 45,000 failed asylum seekers given right to work

With a little help from your friends you can live longer

Disabled people 'face savage onslaught' from benefit cuts

DWP 'considering the future' of volunteer brokerage

Gove to streamline education funding for 16- to 19-year-olds

Landlords fear 'no go' zones for shared housing

National Treatment Agency to join Public Health Service

Sometimes community sentences don't work

Review of arm's length bodies to cut bureaucracy

Disabled back-to-work scheme Work Choice will go ahead

Cuts will 'decimate' Connexions

Extra funding for Neet courses

Youth services told to improve

Benefit cuts: 750,000 risk losing homes in south-east

Social Investment and the Big Society vision: Report

Fears ‘mysterious' head shop drugs are toxic

Drugs+Diversity - impact on different minority groups

Liberating the NHS: regulating healthcare providers 

Early experiences of implementing personal health budgets

Government trebles rough sleeper estimate to 1,247

 DWP: Needs of People with Mental Health/LD conditions

 Public heath service should focus on mental health+offending

Guidance published - Refugees applying for indefinite leave

YOI restraint rises despite fall in levels of custody

Local charity cuts jeopardise David Cameron's 'big society' 

Lambeth cuts 1/3rd off Young People voluntary sector funding

MP campaigning against forced marriages and honour killings

Social Investment and the Big Society Vision: Report

Benefit reforms 'will make 200,000 homeless'

1 in 5 girls pregnant by age of 18, government study finds

Vuvuzelas fall foul of hearing charities

Giving power to local people

Pensioners plan naked protest

Mental health camps for the UK?

Future of Youth Justice Board decided in autumn green paper

Probation resources stretched to tackle huge drink problem

Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in 2009

Consultation: Liberating the NHS: commissioning for patients

Are councils the winners in the proposed changes to the NHS?

"Giving me control of my care has been a revelation"

Want to get ex-offenders into work?  

Do disabled people fare better in the open labour market?

Are your children exposed to drugs?

Young people shape mental health services for their peers

Councils will struggle to take on health White Paper role

Maude places voluntary sector cuts on red alert

Government launches Adult Care Funding Commission

Ageing Well

Voluntary groups wary after being hit by cuts

Plans to deport eastern European rough sleepers under fire

£30m fund to support Young Carers launched

The "big society": new doubts emerge

How to beat depression - without drugs

Personal health budgets run into resource problems

Minister announces review of Offender learning

Social Housing sector calls for £9.5bn investment

Many offenders in jail too long, says parole chief

Transparency in outcomes - a framework for the NHS

Boris pleads for special Housing Benefits case for London

Chairman of the Bar calls for decriminalisation of drug use

Britain 'floundering' in online mephedrone crackdown

Fears over mentally ill care as GPs say they don't want job 

'Drive fingers into groin', says prison service manual

Unclaimed savings to fund Tories' Big Society bank plan

Home Secretary commits to ending violence against women

Sheltered Housing gets £400k to help residents go online

Councils and GPs urged to start White Paper talks

Elderly people are 'routinely abused by home carers'

Budget's cuts to Housing Benefits will price people out of many areas

Rough sleeping hits eleven-year low

Supporting People and the effect of the Coalition cuts

Personalisation in Practice

Pilot project helping residents stay in their own homes

Landlords hit by SP ring fence removal

Sex and violence: improving your care

Young people want the facts about drugs

Home Office: New York model of policing domestic abuse

Temporary ban on legal highs needed

1:6 who are NEETS for two years will be dead by age of 30

Survey reveals prejudice against learning disabilities

Prince's Trust calls for Volunteer mentors

Disabled people wanted to mentor children

Film making scheme for Charities launched

Service Users wrongly detained in Care settings

Help for Social Enterprises that tackle homelessness

Minister challenges ‘narrow' definition of social enterprise

Progress made in youth alcohol misuse, report shows

Housing options for refugees in London

Is social care about to be swallowed up by health?

Mental health must not loose out in NHS shake-up

The NHS and people lacking mental capacity

Living with psychosis: 'I'm mad, but not bad'

Burstow: PCTs scrapped to aid health and social care links

Valuing People Now under threat from Coalition

Report: 10% of young at risk of becoming long-term Neet

Tension at heart of drug classification

Green Paper on on Criminal Justice and Addiction

Homeless people and their pets star in animal TV show

GP's need more understanding of hearing loss

Maximising resources in adult mental health

Is Wales turning to drink during crisis?

Doctors warn of 40% rise in Substance Abuse

Alcohol dependence+harmful use: guideline consultation

New deal for Britain's young, gifted and held back?

New therapy brings results for troubled young people

High Court ruling beefs up support for care leavers

Website aims to help people remain in work

Prime time TV breaks its silence on Deafness 

Inside Housing campaigns against benefit cut plans

Landmark judgement on evicting tenant with history of DV

Youth sector commissioning programme scrapped

Cautious welcome for Scaled Approach system

YJB apologises for delay in publishing reports

Controversial YJB restraint manual to be made public

Report: 10% of young at risk of becoming long-term Neet

Discovery paves way for blood test to predict Alzheimer's

EEG test may help predict who will develop schizophrenia

Give more to charity, the government urges

Poor funding ‘violates rights'

Response to Law Commission Consultation on Adult Social Care

Time for a critical look at our prisons

Improving outcomes for service users

Abused, humiliated and abandoned

Government scraps leading carers' support scheme

With Govt cuts at 40% NHF warn that homelessness will double

Vetting and Barring Scheme registration Update 1/07/10

Riverside service offers hi-tech help to DV victims

Scotland: New protection for vulnerable groups

Gipsy victims of domestic violence offered 'safe caravans'

Government scraps leading carers' support scheme

CVO chief slams 'Neanderthal' commissioning of vol sector

Insolvent refugee charity High Court bid fails

France outlaws psychological violence to tackle DV

Practice Based Commissioning Group

Action for Blind + Nott's work on Personal Budgets

Organisations urged to become more deaf aware

Shaw Trust: Welfare-to-work uncertainty could hit disabled 

Home Office - Bunker mentality of secrecy and suppression

Does a 0.5% fee uplift for elderly care spell disaster?

Councils 'must transform, not slash services' to meet cuts

Jobs agency fails to support homeless

The scandal of how the state treats Carers

Alcohol and drugs reduce creativity, psychiatrist warns

Problem drug users experiences of employment/benefit system

VAT exemptions for charities sharing back-office functions

Charity Commission updates risk guidance

Research promoting citizenship for people with high needs

Fathers who have children with Learning Disabilitities

Directory of Social Change view on Emergency budget 2010 

Alcohol commissioning skills survey  

Ignorance of alcohol in Wales damaging our health

Concerns raised over wrongful detentions of service users

Crowdsourcing the Cuts

Where are Local Compacts effective across England?

LHA cuts to lead to 'benefit ghettos'

Elderly care could collapse in four years

NCVO Briefing on 'Big Society'

Cabinet Office plans support for sector

St Mungo's calls for support to get homeless back into work

Shocking NHS neglect of people with learning disabilities  

Get a job or 'lose out' on Council housing in Barnet

TUPE: Beware a break in the chain

Benefit cuts risk eviction and homelessness

DLA cuts set to hit learning disabled and mentally ill

When your carpet calls your doctor

Osborne to limit benefit payments

Single adult social care law brought forward

Charities boosted to support young people with mental health

Anger as hundreds of children deported alone under EU rules

Govt ministers sign up with charities on Big Society schemes

Peace concert offers alternative to teenage gang culture

17 new recommendations for redesign of mental health service

Falls amongst the elderly cost the NHS millions daily

People with sight loss denied assessments

Immigration officials are failing victims of domestic violence

Teenager-repellent 'mosquito' must be banned, says Europe

We must extend the rights of asylum seekers in modern world

Shocking NHS neglect of people with learning disabilities

Breaking the habit

Landlords welcome change in HMO laws

Coalition expected to keep disabled back-to-work programme

Using ex-offenders is best way to engage with improving prisons

Football is a beautiful game for people with dementia

How to help asylum seekers - list of organisations

Listen, I want to tell you a wonderful story

Kent homeless charity creates career opportunities

Carers to share personal experience of the Care system 

East Sussex U-turn on SP cuts

Tracey Emin to offer art lessons to hostel residents

Shapps to scrap TSA

Council care services under threat from personalisation

Personalisation reducing demand for Liverpool in-house work

The asylum seekers who survive on £10 a week

Coalition won't decriminalise drug abuse

House of Lords: Drugs and Crime - Question for Short Debate

Fundraising gig for mental health wellbeing charity

Refugee and Migrant Justice goes into administration

Big Society Bank to give out first funds by next April 

Shapps promises credible rough sleeper counts

Medicinal Marijuana: A Patient-Driven Phenomenon

Alcohol use of diabetes patients: the need for assessment

Young People are 'desperate to work'

Charities invited to apply for film making project

Vetting and Barring Scheme registration

Homelessness figures fall 16 per cent

Suspicion of migrants is deep-rooted - but not fixed

EHRC to launch inquiry into disability hate crimes

Asylum seekers' survey reveals most find UK 'welcoming'

Alcohol Treatment in Cheshire and Merseyside 2008/09

Enforcement crackdowns make drug markets more violent

Equality commission launches disability harassment probe

Minister promises 'no more red tape' for private landlords

Spending Review 2010 - the Government's approach

A hard day's night

Fed warns cuts could hit most vulnerable

Shed Your Tears and Walk Away

Advice with dice

Warning on NRG-1 drug use at festivals

Top 100 highest growth social businesses in the UK

Coalition may review social tenant security of tenure rights

Should drug addicts be paid to be sterilised?

Scientists have the genetic causes of autism in their sights


CLG make big cuts in SP Admin grant and elsewhere

Design can stop Elders loneliness

Plans to stop Scottish Gangs running Care Homes

Wales forges ahead on Autistic Spectrum Disorder plan

Ring-fencing removed from social care grants

Welfare shake-up for disabled to go ahead in 2011

Councils may get health commissioning role

10 myths about psychotherapy busted

Gypsies prepare to fight government housing policy

Employers urged to invest more in Volunteer Management 

Smarter spending could release £3b to support ageing society

Work related learning benefits Young Disabled 

NHS 'failing to support' children with autism

Humanists call for end to Prison's 'Fetsih of Faith'

World Cup song to raise cash for Carers 

Migrants marrying UK citizens must now learn English

Adult social care grants safe from axe, Burstow confirms 

Ministers commitment to Autism Strategy

Solihull case raises questions over support for self-funders  

Chancellor vows vulnerable will be protected from huge cuts

KAT Programme

Police chief blames alcohol for 14 murders in 10 weeks

DWP: Shadow of doom

Supporting People programme could face massive cuts

Dementia care providers to face fixed-fee tariff

Makeover boost for blind career women

R.O.A.C.H. - a dodgy cannabis campaign

Cloaking device - why prejudice is obscuring basic support

My life on crack'It's the best sex, the most delicious meal

Amount to train 5,000 community organisers likely to be <£20m pa

Alcohol Concern Cymru highlights Cardiff's drinking culture

Binge drinking rots teen brains 

Policy shift on elderly care

Launch of online support to spot forced marriage victims

Anti-fear drug 'could help wipe painful memories'

National campaign thaws attitudes towards mental health

New self help website for cocaine and alcohol users

Risk management: what it means for the domestic violence

Govt urged to support people with Autism

Group structure formed for older people in Wales

Lawyers want court ruling on section 4 support fast-tracked

Happiness May Come With Age, Study Says

Ministers to be lobbied on personalisation development

Alcohol Concern Cymru highlights Cardiff's drinking culture

Cannabis and mental health - two new studies

Botulism infection among drug-users on the rise

The cloak of cyberspace has advantages

The psychological rehab of offenders is not a lost cause

Don't defend disablist language in name of free speech

Improving Lives and Communities in Wales

Alcohol podcast 

Homelessness app a runaway success despite criticism

Consign the 'war on drugs' to history

Voluntary Groups urged to improve accessibility for the deaf 

Carers need immediate statement from coalition Government

Breakdown of welfare spending: what to cut?

Can the Tories afford to shake up benefits?

New film by young carers hopes to educate teachers

Modern way of life leading to loneliness, says new report

Health advisers call for alcohol minimum price

New pan-London guidance on children, young people and alcohol

IDS - reforms will tackle poverty/get Britain working again

State of the Nation report

World Cup success for children with Learning Disabilities

Business Leaders challenge stereotypes of Homeless

Aspirin for Schizophrenia? 

Coalition plans could test health and social care links

The hot topics for voluntary sector debate

Homeless Gardeners triumph at Chelsea

Govt urged to review benefit assessments

Has residential respite care had its day?

Dementia: Sing me the news, and I'll remember it

Regional disparities found in progress on personalisation

Statistics on Alcohol, England 2010

Charities plan for brighter future

Don't cut opportunities for YP urge Catch 22

The Seven Stages of Dementia

After ‘plant food' new legal high is ... 'pond cleaner'

Corporate community urged to volunteer

£20m for disabled children's respite breaks

Personalisation grant could be cut, warns think-tank

Government announces £6.2bn of savings in 2010-11

Health Secretary backs Tesco's to stop selling cheap alcohol

Personal budgets help rough sleepers into accommodation

It's the side of domestic abuse you rarely hear about

How can we encourage people to give time to their community

Drug treatment policy needs a dose of evidence

Unthinkable? Repeal drugs laws

UK policy on gay and lesbian asylum seekers challenged

Don't start building Big Society without us, sector warns

Right to accomodation not a civil right rules Supreme Court

Government scraps Labour's free personal care plan

Criminal justice vol groups resented by Statutory sector?

Coalition sets out positive direction for health+social care  

First Weaver test case to reach court

New work+pensions secretary looks to cut £17bn housing bill

Coalition publishes "Big Society" strategy

Charities getting fat off prisoners they are meant to help?

Dementia Care Mapping - Supported Living think tank

Am I number 12? World Hepatitis Day

Personalisation losing support among social workers 

Anthrax podcast

Navca opens merger talks with NCVO and others

Why musical talent can stem from visual impairment

Help is on hand for blind/partially sighted World Cup fans

HCA makes changes to streamline corporate structure

New DVD to help work with children with complex needs

Young carers routinely bullied at school, study finds

Hardest to Reach? Politics of multiple needs and exclusions

Four out of five worry about Charity survival

8yr old child drug use is a terrifying development

Wormwood Scrubs: the darker side of reality television

How Liverpool docks became a hub of deadly cocaine trade

Service User pressure secures 25% increase in funding

What does the coalition mean for mental health?

Young carers routinely bullied at school, study finds

Hardest to Reach? Politics of multiple needs and exclusions

Four out of five worry about Charity survival

8yr old child drug use is a terrifying development

Disabled activist asks jury to convict for growing cannabis

Delivering Social Inclusion - role HA's can play in PSA 16

Why musical talent can stem from visual impairment

Help is on hand for blind/partially sighted World Cup fans

HCA makes changes to streamline corporate structure

New DVD to help work with children with complex needs

Star ratings end for English care providers

Club Healthy and Safer Nightlife of Youth" project

Involving users in commissioning local services

Coalition urged - make reform of social care urgent priority

Police force to give addicts 'DIY drug kits'

What does the new Coalition have in store for alcohol policy

Charities urge Coalition Government to keep its promises

Functional Vision Assessment Pack

More dementia training in Wales

Experience what it's like to hear Voices

Welsh Housing Leaders seek more powers for Assembly

Are drugs the solution to the problem of ADHD among YP?

A Co-ordinated Approach to Rehabilitation

Tackling worklessness - Good Practice Examples

Dental Care and Substance Misuse Treatment

Uncertainty remains over future for social housing

Disappointment at lack of training plans for young offenders

Hung Parliament Winners? Youth Justice system? 

Hung Parliament Losers? Adult Social Care? 

The little pill that could cure alcoholism

Immigration officers stake-out soup kitchens

Medical students lack elder abuse training

Attitudes towards alcohol: segmentation series

Gardening: medicine for the body and mind

Charity Commission likely to produce guidance on Equality Act

London Runaways Refuge closure leaves only 5 bedspace in UK 


Volunteers providing vital extra support to at-risk children

Ireland top of cocaine league

Should addicts have children?

Adass and LGA warn of extra council costs from ILF cut

Man on a mission to spread the message of recovery 

Depressed men missing out on treatment

Why can't our politicians come clean on drugs?  

Ensuring integrated treatment for dual diagnosis cases

Bright ideas: taking control of care - Northumberland

Talking Mats® help involve people with dementia

Learning Disability Students are magic performers

Disabled man fights benefit rule

Westminster to restrict lettings to all not in temp accom

Podcast of Party views on SP funding and vulnerable people

New Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour

Brighton Charities threatened with Business Rate Relief loss

Adullam issues challenge to dragon

Baby born to drug users every two days

LAA's 2008-2011 - including 2010 Refresh

Hartfield: A new tirement village for the 21st century

Antidepressants add little to effective psychosocial therapy

Charities in a state of anxiety over funding

St Mungo's Pathways to Employment success

Welsh housing plan adapts to downturn

Why can't our politicians come clean on drugs? 

Ensuring integrated treatment for dual diagnosis cases

Bright ideas: taking control of care - Northumberland

Call for next govt to radically reform learning in Britain

Charities support European homelessness drive

Extreme sports killing the elderly

Young people talk about their mental health problems

Taming the beast - Personalisation in Substance Abuse

Outcomes and Day Centres: Showing Your Worth 

Personalisation board game for people with Learning

£m's waste treating mentally ill away from their communities

Improving the outcomes of young people affected by drugs

DVD helps Deafblind people navigate Direct Payments 

Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again 

NHS World class commissioning data packs

The Pavement - a free monthly magazine for the homeless

Crime and Security Bill 2009-10 includes new DV provn

Charity that sterilises addicts to come to UK (Substance Misuse)

Pilot phone support service for Older People

Free personal care bill becomes law

Drug users to be given personal budgets

Massaging figures+hosing down rough sleepers won't help

Manifesto for ending mental health stigma

Alcohol consumption causing high UK cancer rates

Housing rights resource pack

White Paper: Sector split on personal budgets for all target

How disco helped my autistic son

Mephedrone: the anatomy of a media drug scare 

New standards for tenants in public housing come into force

£165m + to support home adaptations for disabled people

Social Care Bulletin, White Paper special issue

Delivering New Horizons and Quality and Productivity (Mental Health)

The Benefits of Youth Work Report states case for youth work

Personalisation: Councils get £30m to boost IT+ user advice

Home Secretary bans mephedrone

Personalisation in Mental Health- Emerging Programme

Landlords get to grips with tenant involvement

Asylum pledge - contact your parliamentary candidates

Human Rights and Drug Policy

Welcome for Cider tax increase from Thames Reach

Looking ahead to next 25 of mental health policy/practice

Care Leavers being disadvantaged by Benefit system

Ban on meow meow to be delayed by EU

Budget: Adult Care Taskforce set up to drive care efficiency

Care White Paper: Government told not to shirk from reform

DoH: Healthcare for Single Homeless People

Loved ones 'written off' by services, Support study finds

Comments for the Manifesto ** New Posting Theme **

Practice Based Commissioning Group - Wave 2

Reviews of learning disabilities health care standards

£1m funding for volunteers managers (3rd Sector matters !
DoH: Strengthening national commissioning consultation

Valuing people now: a new three-year strategy

Valuing people now: transfer of funding and commissioning (Learning Disability)

Legacy Plan for Disabled People to improve the lives of 10m

Brown's flagship free personal care bill dismantled by Lords

New Horizons - Report on responses to the consultation

Film premiere from Newcastle ex homeless (Homelessness)

NAO - Successful Commisioning with 3rd Sector Organisations (Tendering, Procurement and Commissioning News)

The answer to teen alcoholism? (Substance Misuse)

Real Choices - Independence and equality in the balance (Personalisation/Self-Directed Support/Individual Budgets)

Provisional Grant Allocations for the Personal Care At Home (Personal Care at Home Bill

Free teenager slumber classes in effort to improve behaviour (Young Persons)

Politicians in denial about rising bill for welfare state (Future for Supporting People +Supported Care)

David Askew death: Police say council was too slow to help (Learning Disability) - via Twitter

LGA "banned list" of words - your own 'banned words'? (Supporting People Resources)

Individual Budgets for Rough Sleepers (Personalisation/Self-Directed Support/Individual Budgets)

In Control: Personal budgets delivering improved outcomes (Personalisation/Self-Directed Support/Individual Budgets)

Scotland - independent scrutiny of procurement exercises (Tendering, Procurement & Commissioning News)

The answer to teen alcoholism?

Real Choices - Independence and equality in the balance 

Provisional Grant Allocations for the Personal Care At Home Bill

CLG figures claim 72% decrease in homelessness (Homelessness)

£240k fund aims to turn women away from crime (Offenders/Ex-Offenders)

Delay on white paper publication is due to Treasury (Personal Care at Home Bill)

Savings evident in integrated care says Turning Point

The real risks of mental illness

Funding social care: what service users say, User Involvement & Advocacy 

Support into work for people with learning disabilities

Call for women focussed services for vulnerable offenders

Cross Party blueprint funding reform of older people's care

Cocaine, rehab and the long nose of the law 

Making housing market more stable for vulnerable households?

Bham Council and PCT's combine LD and mental Health spending 

Support into work for people with learning disabilities

Call for women focussed services for vulnerable offenders

Cross Party blueprint funding reform of older people's care

Salvation Army rebrands its hostels as ‘lifecentres'

New figures show drug treatment value for money 

Councils retain control of funds for accomm services pilot 

DWP expands Access to Work for mental health+LD

Councils planning savage cuts to adult care spending

New focus on adults with autism

Benefit reforms 'will increase arrears'

Election 2010: NCVO's manifesto Feb 2010

Improving how people with Learning Disabilities are supported in hospital

Is taking cocaine socially acceptable now? 

Teen partner violence campaign 

Largest ever study of cocaine users in treatment published 

High Court to rule on section 4 support changes 

Personal Care at Home Bill - Telecare briefing perspective

BME Voluntary+Community Groups urged to promote their work 

ADASS tells DH: Make personal care part-funded not free

Personal Care at Home Bill - Telecare briefing perspective

BME Voluntary & Community Groups urged to promote their work 

LA powers to improve standards in private rented sector

Prioritising need in the context of Putting People First

Apprenticeship scheme tackles youth unemployment

Youth custody becoming a form of "respite care" for LAs

Right to Control - Choice + funding for disabled persons

7 Depression Busters for Caregivers

YP Helplines concern over bullying and confidentiality row

New powers to scrutinise local spending decisions 

Law Commission proposes streamlining adult social care laws 

£16m grants available for Social Enterprises 

Carers urged to claim Pension Credit 

Thames Reach targets bendy bus rough sleepers 

High Court ruling on asylum-seeking children welcomed   

Mental health services for looked after young people 

Most suggestions for punishing young offenders rejected

Charities 'in crisis' as spending cuts bite 

Secondhand Blues - Depression is contagious 

IOW Supporting People Cash Crisis

Bar lowered on 2012 rough sleeper figures

Couples therapy aids alcohol-dependent women recovery

Relationships between drug workers 

Councils ill-prepared to meet ageing challenge 

Disabled children + their families let down by court ruling 

Client Records and outcomes reports available

Sentenced prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families

Social landlords unprepared for TSA

ADASS lead: Dementia strategy money not spent as desired

Pain+anger are the hidden burden for children of Alcoholics

Local authority telecare profies 

LA powers to improve standards in private rented sector 

councils drop warden case appeals

cabinet Office - "what's works well in SP world" 

Councils shouldn't cut out third sector in effeciency drive 

The ex-convict signing up other prisoners for degrees

Adult safeguarding: BASW, IDeA and Scie call for evidence 

Research into multi-area agreements - LAA/LSP's evaluation 

Let's Talk About Drugs" Media Awards for Community Groups 

Barnet considers warden ruling appeal

Audit Commission updates KLOE 

SPweb is being mothballed - signs of things to come? 

 FAQ guide for drug sector on new vetting and barring scheme 

Challenge Fund: social housing Family Intervention Projects

Confessions of a middle-class pill popper 

Valuing people now: real jobs for learning disabilities 

Chance brings refugees to Britain not choice, says report 

Ministers rule out extra funding re 16-18 year olds homelessness 

New York hostel idea to be replicated in UK

Ignorance and indifference risks spread of chlamydia 

Study links processed foods to depression 

DoH - role grants play in developing+supporting communities

Council cuts loom over teenage pregnancy services 

From the Ground Up: report+guide to integrate design+service

Dawn of the 'geriaddicts' drug users

Harman pledges govt to banish ageism and greets "wellderly"

Dick and Dom back Shelter campaign

Alcohol treatment closure prompts threat of judicial review 

High Court orders housing support for failed asylum duo 

24% of providers can't afford to renew SP contracts

Online voice for drug users+people with mental health 

Children at risk as 10% Scottish dads admits abusing drugs 

Care homes forcing elderly to have feeding tubes fitted (Elders)ob Vacancies posted

Pensioners burn books for warmth

Care Quality Commission blasts LD 'inconsistent' provision 

DWP Consultation: Improvements needed to Pathways to Work scheme  

New Toolkit re Suicide Prevention 

New guide for mental health commissioners published 

Too much of the hard stuff: what alcohol costs the NHS 

Have your say on Volunteers' rights 

Government shuts repossession loophole

The control freakery of domestic abuse 

Looking after someone 2009/10 : Carers 'rights+benefits'


CQC to scrutinise care for people with learning disabilities 

ACEVO takes "NHS as preferred provider" to Competition Panel

The 'garden shed' where lives are being saved

Video: Xmas Special, addiction support, relapse prevention 

Mental health trust wants to shut Birmingham's Main House 

Good practice: Tackling Violence against Women and Girls 

Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Innovation - HAPPI 

Restraint in secure training centres/young offenders

Geriaddicts: Exploring an ageing drug user population 

Young people and sexual exploitation 

New social networking site for young people

Government grant for women fleeing sex industry

Guidance: Homelessness Prevention and Relief

Area Based Grant (ABG) - additional funding streams

More on Court decision to quash Warden cuts

Refreshed national Compact document

Partnership bid to end rough sleeping by 2013

Call for better partnership to support Care provision

Housing benefit reform put on ice 

Get prisoners off drugs? Don't be so silly

Single Equality Scheme improving access for people with LD 

Adult care providers: £12m internet fund up for grabs

Replacement care funding ushered in early

Teenagers given access to sheltered housing 

MPs go clubbing in a bid to learn more about cocaine abuse 

Carers Rights Day: Third of carers put in 50 hours a week 

Consultancy
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Revenue Optimisation
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