Welcome to the Bath & North East Somerset Supporting People Programme
Available now the new Housing Support Gateway. This is an online single point of access for a large number of housing related support services. Click here to find out more www.housingsupportgatewaybathnes.org.uk
Supporting People is a Local Authority Partnership between Housing, Health, Probation and Social Services. We commission housing related support services that enable people to acquire and sustain a tenancy and their independence in their own home.
Each local authority is responsible for administering their allocation of funding for the programme and commissioning services according to an agreed strategy.
In Bath and North East Somerset this includes approximately 3000 units of accommodation and several floating/re-settlement support services. Information about all these services is available from our online database SPOCC.net. Search by client group to bring up results throughout B&NES.
Alternatively, you can open a copy of our Directory of local Supporting People Services through the menu on the left.
The overall aims of the programme can be summarised as follows:
- to provide housing related support services that are focussed on meeting the needs of local people
- to provide a range and choice of high quality support services for vulnerable people
- to develop a commissioning strategy for housing related support services that is linked to other plans such as the health improvement programme and the community safety strategy
- to ensure that the needs of all vulnerable groups and individuals are recognised
Thirteen different client groups are included in the programme:
- Older people with support needs
- People with learning disabilities
- People with HIV/AIDS
- People with drug problems
- Young people at risk or leaving care
- Single homeless people
- Refugees
- People with mental health problems
- People with physical disabilities
- People with alcohol problems
- Ex-offenders or people at risk of offending
- Women at risk of domestic violence
- Homeless families
Our Supporting People Shadow Strategy was rated as 'excellent' by the ODPM and commended as a model example to other authorities.
The Supporting People Team is a team of skilled professionals comprising seven members of staff, the majority of whom work part time. Between us all we have a broad range of qualifications. We are proud of our team skills and have included these as part of our website.
In our recent Audit Commission Inspection we were assessed as providing a "Good", two star service that has promising prospects for inmprovement. A full copy of the report is available on the Audit Commission website.
We have tried to make as much information available as possible, however if you have any questions that are not answered on the site please don’t hesitate to contact us at Supporting_peopleteam@bathnes.gov.uk and we will respond as quickly as possible.
Alternatively you can look for further information on the Government Supporting People website.