1. Jeremy Porteus Director, Housing LIN 5 March 2014
Partnership working to maximise the housing needs and aspirations of older people
Jeremy Porteus
Director, Housing LIN
5 March 2014

2. About the Housing LIN
Policy Implementation: to support policy and practice to deliver care closer to home agenda
Key priorities: extra care programme, telecare, national strategy on housing for an ageing society
Building capacity and capability: information, advice and tools on new markets for commissioners and providers
Looking at outcomes: new opportunities for older people and vulnerable people
Delivery mechanism: network partners

3. What type of services do older people want?
those that are personable and meet their whole needs not just sickness and crisis response
offer genuine choice and control
support people to remain independent in safe and caring communities i.e., floating support, telecare and role of carers
are delivered as near to their homes as possible i.e., advice and information, handyperson services
are age friendly and better designed for “liveability” and lifetime neighbourhoods
are joined up so that people don’t have to struggle to find their way through the system

4. What type of partnerships do older people want?
Customer based - evidence demonstrating positive practice by providers and commissioners of housing for older people
Partnerships - picture of good links between housing and the health and well-being agendas:- practice/service based strategic links – eg (meaningful) inclusion of HIAs, extra care and related services in local strategies for older or other vulnerable people
Better understand – of housing and housing related care and support services for older people that meets their needs and aspirations

5. What type of partnerships do older people want?
Better outcomes – that reflect the importance of good safe housing conditions for health and wellbeing
Closer integration - housing and related services are very largely commissioned/funded by local authorities – only few examples of CCG involvement. HWB still relatively new
Investment opportunities – Work with local community to explore inward investment eg personal equity, public subsidy/grants (PFI credits, ECH grant, DFGs, HC affordable housing programme, social enterprise, rental/sale streams etc)

6. Partnerships: a confusing language?
Joint working
Collaboration
Integration
Partnership working
Cooperation
Coproduction
Alignment
Whole system
holistic

7. Latest policy development: The Care Bill
Promoting integration on care and support with health services etc.   (1) A local authority must exercise its functions under this Part with a view to ensuring the integration of care and support provision with health provision and health-related provision where it considers that this would—   (a) promote the well-being of adults in its area with needs for care and support and the well-being of carers in its area, (b) contribute to the prevention or delay of the development by adults in its area of needs for care and support or the development by carers in its area of needs for support, or (c) improve the quality of care and support for adults, and of support for carers, provided in its area (including the outcomes that are achieved from such provision).

8. Latest policy development: The Care Bill
Co-operating generally
(1) A local authority must co-operate with each of its relevant partners, and each relevant partner must co-operate with the authority, in the exercise of—
(a) their respective functions relating to adults with needs for care and support,
(b) their respective functions relating to carers, and
(c) functions of theirs the exercise of which is relevant to functions referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

9. What does partnership mean for you?
do you understand the needs and aspirations of existing residents and how best to partner with them to address local housing options?
have you taken into account major policy changes and impact on capital and revenue eg Care Bill?
how plugged in are you to local partnerships at a corporate level, especially with housing, health and social care?

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