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Conference

National Housing Support

& Social Care

Conference 2011

"What To Do If Your Funding is Cut"

    Held on: 23rd November 2011

Ricoh Arena, Coventry, CV6 6AQ

Support Solutions are very pleased to announce that our 3rd National Housing Support and Social Care Conference was a HUGE SUCCESS. Please see some typical examples of feedback from some of the 250 people who attended the Conference.

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Our keynote was the inspiring Polly Toynbee, who worked for many years at The Guardian before joining the BBC where she was social affairs editor (1988-1995). At The Independent, which she joined after leaving the BBC, she was a columnist and associate editor, working with the editor Andrew Marr. She later rejoined The Guardian. She has also written for The Observer and the Radio Times; at one time she edited the US Washington Monthly.  In 2003 she published "Hard Work: Life in Low Pay Britain" about a period voluntarily living on the minimum wage (£4.10 per hour at the time). She worked as care home worker, amongst many other roles. Currently she serves as President of the Social Policy Association.

This was an ideal networking and learning & problem solving opportunity. Changes are being rapidly implemented: Personalisation, the very recent proposals for the future funding of supported & sheltered housing, the wider welfare reform agenda, the Health and Social Care Bill, Localism, the Big Society to mention just a few.

Providers and Commissioners find themselves in a fundamentally changing environment conditioned by both new social policy initiatives and public expenditure cuts. At Support Solutions we can see how its all supposed to work, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will work. Much depends on understanding and collaboration at local level and we wanted this conference to inform that understanding and collaboration.

We have always focused on communicating breadth and depth of understanding in all of our learning events and this conference was no exception. We chose 5 key workshop themes which reflect the challenges and opportunities facing the sector in these demanding times.

• Future Funding & Commissioning Arrangements
• The Implications of the DWP Review of Housing Benefit for Supported Housing
• How to Win Tenders
• Developing Social Enterprise & Social Investment
• Collaborative & Consortium Working

The primary outcomes for the conference were that delegates would emerge with:

• An understanding of the housing & non-housing revenue situation & how to change & consolidate your financial position
• An understanding of local commissioning arrangements and the importance of influencing how they are developed and managed
• An understanding of the growing importance of social enterprise and social investment within the Provider sector
• An understanding of consortia and other collaborative arrangements and how they work
• How the housing, support & social care landscape is evolving
• Clarity as to the challenges and opportunities which lie ahead.

All Support Solutions learning events & conferences feature high quality information & resource packs on a range of issues of direct relevance to delegates. This event will was no exception.

Being mindful of the economic situation we managed to keep the delegate fee at £100 + VAT without impacting on the high quality for which we are renowned.

Please call us on 0121 707 7766/8881 or email shervorne@supportsolutions.co.uk  if you'd like to talk to us about this event or next years conference.