1. Introduction to Housing and Learning Disability in Medway By Russell Drury, Medway Council Housing Department

2. What type of housing do people in Medway live? Housing Needs Survey 2006

3. Where do people with a learning disability, known to adult social care, live in Medway? 2011

4. How is housing organised in in Medway? Big Medway 2011-2014 housing plan (strategy) for everyone in Medway There is an easy read version You can get this on: www.medway.gov.uk

5. Big Medway Housing Target – ‘Affordable Housing’ Over the last few years, house prices gone up a lot across the country and many people are now not able to buy or rent housing without Council help. ‘Affordable housing’ in Medway helps people (in the most need) to be able to afford to buy or rent housing in Medway.

6. Challenge - ‘Affordable Housing’ Each year Medway advertises about 700 ‘affordable housing’ properties But ….. each year 15,000 people say they need to live in ‘affordable housing’ in Medway This means Medway need to: – Build lots more affordable housing –Understand who these need to be built for

7. Understanding Learning Disability Housing Plans in Medway Medway Council has just started working with the Institute of Public Care (IPC) to do a Medway Learning Disability Housing Needs Assessment ‘Needs Assessments’ let people know ‘what is needed’ about something and who needs it.

8. Housing Work plan for the Partnership Board We would like to have a clear housing work plan for the Partnership Board. We would like to have the housing work plan around the 3 main areas people on the Partnership Board think are working and ‘not working’.

9. Housing – Small Group Exercise