Contact details
4th Floor
Bartholomew House
Bartholomew Square
Brighton
BN1 1JP
Tel: (01273) 292078
supportingpeople@
brighton-hove.gov.uk
Welcome to Supporting People
Brighton & Hove
The Supporting People Team manage a wide range of services that provide housing-related support enabling people to move to independent housing or to assist them in maintaining independent living.
SUPPORTED HOUSING MONTH
The Supporting People team would like to thank all who took part in Supported Housing Month for making the month a great success.
South East Supported Housing Month was an awareness-raising campaign aimed at showcasing the work housing associations, local authorities and service providers are doing to support more than 136,000 vulnerable people in the region.
There were many events in the month from Art Exhibitions to Open Days.
For more information visit our Supported Housing Month page. All the events are listed there from a Nintendo Wii Tournament in Older People Week to A Big Lunch and Treasure Hunt in Young People and Teenage Parents Week
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Brighton & Hove City Council have been judged by independent inspectors to deliver "A good, "2 Star" Supporting People service with promising prospects for improvement.
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Commissioning Event September 2009
An event focusing on commissioning for vulnerable people was held on 22nd September. Commissioners from the PCT, Children and Young Peoples Trust, Probation and Single Homeless and Work & Learning ran information sessions on how they commission services. Our colleagues from Adult Social Care also provided an update on personalisation.
Please see the News & Events ‘Provider Forum’ page to download the presentations from the day.
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Brighton & Hove City Council have a Deposit Guarantee Scheme for people leaving Supporting People funded accommodation.
The Scheme is available to service users who are leaving services in Band 3 of the Integrated Support Pathway ORWe have also produced a Service User handout (Pdf, 511kb) to describe how the scheme works. This will be included as a section in the Service User Move on Handbook, which will be available to download from the end of February 2009.
Providers may access information about the scheme in the 'For Providers' section of this site.
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Housing-related support that is funded by Supporting People includes:
- Accommodation and floating support
- Support provided by Key Workers
- Scheme Wardens or Managers
- Community alarm systems
- Someone to help service users learn skills to help them live independently
Supporting People funding does not pay for people or services that provide care, such as cleaning, shopping or making meals.
The Supporting People grant will only fund certain activities. These are called Eligible Tasks.
For details of services included and not included, click here [Word 680kb].
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This website gives you all the information you need about Supporting People in Brighton & Hove. You can also search for services using our Service and Provider directories in our 'Find Support' pages
If you have trouble finding what you are looking for, you can click on the 'Help' link in the menu or phone the Supporting People team on (01273) 292078 or contact us online.
Information on this website is also available in other languages.
You can find more information on all Supporting People programmes across the country by visiting www.spkweb.org.uk