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[Report of the Assistant Director for Planning Regeneration, and Development. To be introduced by the Cabinet Member for Housing, Regeneration and Planning.] Report setting out recommendations for change to supported housing and housing support based on the findings of the Supported Housing Review.

Appendix 1 – Working Group Introduction is marked to follow.

The Cabinet Member for Finance and Health introduced the report which set out the findings of the Supported Housing Review.

The review had involved obtaining a range of stakeholder views, through quantitative and qualitative means, on current supported housing provision, support models, and built environments in the borough. This was in light of the changing housing and social care landscape which emphasised the need to modernise and diversify the housing support offer to the boroughs vulnerable residents.

The Cabinet Member for Finance and Health referred to the findings of the review, set out at page 64 of the agenda pack, which described: current service models as largely reactive, supported housing not being used in an efficient way, and indicated that best practice methods were not being utilised to maximise independence.

There were a total of 11 recommendations from the Supported Housing Review, some universal and others targeted around young people, mental health, learning disabilities and older people.

Completion of the review was the 1^st phase of work, and there would be future decisions on the different client groups coming forward to Cabinet as and when the associated phases of work were completed.

The Cabinet Member for Finance and Health thanked the members working group and Gill Taylor, the project manager, for all their hard work over the last year in bringing the review and recommendations forward.

In response to questions from Councillor Morris, the following information was noted:

• There was still significant work to be taken forward, which was recognised and underpinned this framework, to achieve the required changes in supported housing. Therefore the savings figure associated with these changes was expected to evolve .However, there was likely to be savings as a result of the housing provision being better utilised.

• It was important to note that the savings were not just the priority but achieving the outcomes of greater independence and the prevention of crisis’s before they occur for clients in supported housing which this framework would enable.

• The Assistant Director for Commissioning stressed that these were strategic priorities being followed in the framework and so were not dependent on agreement of the HDV. The Assistant Director continued to provide assurance of the alternative actions that could taken such as work with registered providers to find supported housing placements.

RESOLVED

1. To note and consider the introductory report from the Supported Housing Review Members Working Group set out in appendix 1.

2. To note and consider the data and intelligence collated as part of the Supported Housing Review, presented in the Needs and Gaps Analysis, set out in appendix 2.

3. To approve the vision, strategic principles and initial recommendations for housing support transformation set out below from 3.5 and explored further in the Recommendations Framework at appendix 3.

4. To agree that the transformation of housing support should be based on a vision of Haringey as a place ‘where vulnerable residents can access flexible and personalised housing support services that maximise prevention, independence and inclusion within diverse mixed communities.’

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