Housing, Care and Support: Volume 3 Issue 1
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A journal on policy, research and practiceTable of contents
Leaving homelessness behind: New solutions for a new age
Shaks GhoshThe homeless population is one of the most studied in the field of social exclusion. We know more than enough about the problem of homelessness and its associated demographics…
Supporting People and neighbourhood renewal: Does special help for individuals fit within community development?
Martin CooperThis article takes up the issue of the relationship between Supporting People and neighbourhood renewal. It attempts a non‐partisan debate about how Supporting People can play a…
A partnership for health
Peter MolyneuxThe flu ‘epidemic’ and the ‘shortage’ of beds within the NHS dominated the headlines in the first weeks of the twenty‐first century. That this very twentieth‐century issue should…
Social housing and the national service framework for mental health
Eddie GreenwoodThe transforming influence of care in the community, with its resulting mass of new legislation, has brought about change whose pace has been gathering momentum. The culmination…
Housing opportunities for people with learning disabilities: A national pilot project aimed at helping local authorities increase the range of choice
Janet SolomonsThis article analyses the experience of the London Borough of Barnet's participation in a national housing pilot project which sought to enable local authorities to increase the…
Meeting the housing needs of disabled children: Identifying the problems and a practitioner's agenda for joint working
Christine Oldman, Bryony BeresfordThis article is based on two pieces of work. The first, Homes Unfit for Children (Oldman & Beresford, 1998), was based on a postal survey and 40 in‐depth interviews with families…
Best value for extra care services: Going beyond simple measures
Sharon MitchellApplying best value principles to ‘hard’ services such as repairs, planned maintenance, rent collection and arrears management is relatively straightforward, with a raft of good…
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1460-8790Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr Martin Whiteford