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More than £2.3 million is being invested in housing and care projects in Caerphilly and Carmarthenshire in a bid to help people with care needs live independently for longer. The funding, provided through the Welsh Government’s Housing with Care Fund,… Read more »
Funding for Welsh services including homeless hostels and women’s hostels was cut by £37m between 2012 and 2018, according to a report released on Monday. The report, Housing Matters, highlights the impact of the cuts on local authorities, the voluntary… Read more »
There were sighs of relief across Wales and the UK after the Westminster government decided it will not go ahead with plans to impose a local housing allowance (LHA) cap on supported and social housing. Theresa May revealed the decision… Read more »
The Westminster government has announced a new funding regime for supported housing. Jules Birch blogs on the implications for Wales. First, the good news: a written statement by UK work and pensions secretary Damian Green confirmed that both the LHA… Read more »
Hugh Russell blogs on the launch of the 2016 Let’s Keep on Supporting People campaign. Following the success of last year’s Let’s Keep on Supporting People (SP) campaign, which saw the programme’s funding protected and ringfenced, CHC and Cymorth Cymru have… Read more »
The Westminster government has announced a one-year delay to a new housing benefit cap after warnings that it poses a major threat to the future of supported housing projects. The 2015 Autumn Statement included a cap on social housing rents… Read more »
A new study for Welsh Government makes the first steps in demonstrating the impact of Supporting People. Regular readers of WHQ will be familiar with the long struggle to demonstrate the impact of the Supporting People Programme. It is a… Read more »
March 2006 A unique development specifically designed to provide supported living services for tenants with autism and learning difficulties opened in March 2006. Ty Nant, which is thought to be the first scheme of its kind in the Wales, will… Read more »
March 2006 Results announced by the Department of Health this month said Telecare, which is the use of technology to monitor vulnerable people in their own homes, is helping growing numbers of older people live independently for longer. Dr Gibbons… Read more »
March 2005 A ground-breaking initiative in Denbighshire is set to give a new start in life to people that have suffered from substance misuse by offering them a home. The scheme is the result of a partnership between the North… Read more »
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