Housing & Support Sector Briefing
Free QAF compliant policies & procedures
Links
If you work for or with an organisation involved in housing and support and would like us to include your organisation's logo, a description of what your organisation does and link to your website (if you have one) on this page, please email us at (info@supportsolutions.co.uk) and we will happily oblige.
On this page you can find links to sites of interest to us and the sector we serve and you can download FREE QAF compliant policies & procedures. You can also find resources of interest to providers and commissioners of housing-related support and care.
We will be adding to this page continuously as we find new resources and connections of interest to visitors to our site. If you would like to submit a link or a resource for us to include on this page, please email resources@supportsolutions.co.uk and include the link or resource within your message or as an attachment.
Housing & Support Sector Briefing
After 8 issues of the Briefing and the achievement of a circulation of in excess of 10,000 readers we have decided to publish The Briefing on a paid subscription basis. The annual subscription cost for 6 issues will be £50 + VAT. This is a small price to pay for what has become essential reading for the sector. The Briefing has carved itself a reputation as an independent and incisive publication which deals with current and future issues of importance for the sector.
Everyone on our Briefing circulation list will be sent an invitation to subscribe before the publication of Issue 9 in March 2008. If you would like to be included on our circulation list please enter your name and email address in the mailing list sign up box to the left and above this paragraph or email us at briefing@supportsolutions.co.uk and we will manually add your details to our list.
The Briefing is a professionally produced electronic magazine delivered by email. It contains cutting edge analysis, comment and opinion on the issues that matter to the sector. Contributions are from Support Solutions consultants, external experts commissioned for specific issues and providers who wish to showcase good services. Any contributors who want to submit well-researched and argued material or even just a cogently constructed rant about something of professional or personal significance in housing-related support is most welcome to do so.
You can download for free any or all of the 8 issues we have published so far by clicking on the links below:
Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
Issue 4
Issue 5
Issue 6
Issue 7
Issue 8
Free QAF compliant policies & procedures
We are in the process of attaching a series of QAF-compliant policies and procedures which you are entitled to download and use. These are free policies although we are aware that similar policies are available elsewhere for a fee. We ask that you acknowledge Support Solutions Ltd as the original author of these policies and procedures. Support Solutions Ltd does not guarantee that the use of these policies will guarantee a successful review outcome and gives no warranty at all as to their use.
These policies and prodecures are in use within Supporting People funded services in many parts of the UK. You will need to carefully adjust these policies and procedures to the needs of your service users, staff and organisation.
Click on the links below to download the policies and procedures to which they relate.
Protection from Abuse
Security, Health & Safety
Needs, Risk & Support Planning
Links
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www.rarechromo.org
UNIQUE RCD (Rare Chromosome Disorder Support Group) is an information charity for people involved with someone with a rare chromosome disorder. Very often Unique supports the parents of children with rare |
chromosome disorders. The consequences of this condition are often very significant, 90%+ of children born with rcd's have learning disabilities, many have physical disabilities, many are completelly dependent on their parents or carers. You can find out more about rare chromosome disorders by reading Unique's "Little Yellow Book".
Like many small charities Unique receives no public money and depends on fundraising and donations in order to operate. |
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www.bild.org.uk
The British Institute of Learning Disabilities
The British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) is committed to improving the quality of life for the 1.2 million people in the UK with a learning disability. |
They do this by:
- influencing policy makers and other decision makers
- encouraging good practice among practitioners from a wide range of disciplines
- helping people with a learning disability take charge of their own lives and become part of an inclusive society
As well as being a campaigning organisation, the BILD site has good resources for anyone with a personal or professional interest in learning disability. |
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www.disabilitynow.org.uk/campaigns/baywatch
Disability Now's campaign against the abuse of disabled parking bays
Ever get annoyed when non-disabled drivers park their vehicles in designated disabled bays? Or even worse, able bodied drivers who misuse someone else's blue badge? You can download a polite but clear "parking ticket" here to place on an offender's vehicle. |
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