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The Briefing

Briefing 12 Out Now! It's free and always will be.

See below for details and to read Briefing 12.

We launched the Support Solutions Briefing in the summer of 2006 as a free publication for the housing support and social care sector, dealing with the key sector issues of the day. The Briefing was incredibly well-received. Its circulation rose from 0 to several thousand in a matter of months. OK, it was free and delivered electronically to your email inbox but serious people don't read rubbish and we are often pleased to see copies of Briefing articles on the desks of potential and existing clients when go to see them. The Briefing is an electronic, web-based publication. It is ecologically sensible because there are no environmental costs associated with distribution and postage, paper, ink and equipment overheads.

We've redesigned the visual impression of The Briefing but we've maintained the same informed and incisive writing style and kept the same sense of what matters to people involved in housing support & social care. A consultancy like Support Solutions should contribute with others to develop thinking within the sector and to help shape its response to the changing environment in which it operates, for example, in relation to the Personalisation Agenda, Intensive Housing Management, Housing Benefit and non-housing revenue for support and social care, tendering for services and the retrenchment of Supporting People. We do this in the day to day work we do with clients and we also do this through The Briefing.

To subscribe to The Briefing simply enter your name and email address into the "Sign up for Briefing" box to the right of this page. Please tell your colleagues and friends about it.

In Issue 12 of The Briefing we have articles on:

• Intensive Housing Management & the DWP Consultation on HB for Sheltered & Supported Housing: Michael Patterson discusses the financial & service delivery benefits to local authorities, providers and tenants of revenue for Intensive Housing Management. Michael also comments in detail on the DWP's Consultation Proposals for the use of HB in Sheltered & Supported Housing.

• "Payment by Results" Contracts: John Hodges with an analysis of "PbR" contracts and what they mean to providers & commissioners. Plenty of useful information and additional resources here.

• Personalisation in Action: Alison Smith gives us the latest on the evolution of the Personalisation Agenda & what it means for providers and the people we support as well as its implications for our contractual relationship with commissioners.

• Developing New Service Models in Partnership with Customers: Stuart Hodgkins discusses why and how we need to think about service diversification in times of austerity and the need to involve customers (people who use our services and people who commission them) with us.
  

• Demonstrating Excellence & Continuous Improvement in Services: Yvonne May analyses why and how providers need to demonstrate excellence and continuous improvement in housing support & social care services.
  

• Funding Housing Support & Social Care Services in a Time of Change: Michael Patterson with an analysis of the new funding & commissioning arrangements for housing support & social care services, the need to diversify service offerings, what the new revenue sources are and how to access them.
  

• An Update on the Welfare Reform Bill: Alison Smith with a detailed analysis of the Welfare Reform Bill and how it will impact on sector providers and vulnerable people.
  

• Support Solutions' Response to the DWP Consultation on HB for Sheltered & Supported Housing: We still await a view from the DWP to the large volume of responses submitted to their Consultation by October 2011. Has the sector given the DWP food for thought? We hope we did.
  

Please click on the hyperlinks above for the briefings you want to read or click here to go to the Briefing 12 home page.

Read previous Issues below:

Issue 11 | Issue 10 | Issue 9 | Issue 8 | Issue 7 | Issue 6 | Issue 5 | Issue 4 | Issue 3 | Issue 2 |