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Home: Community: Places to live menuSupporting PeopleSupporting People Team - May 2011supporting.people@kirklees.gov.uk
The Supporting People programme helps vulnerable people to live independently in the community. The type of support funded includes: supporting someone to maintain their health and wellbeing, develop their life skills and manage their home. It aims to improve people's quality of life and provide support to prevent problems that can lead to hospitalisation, institutional care or homelessness.
The Supporting people team are responsible for funding services that provide a package support to help vulnerable people live independently. The team also monitors the quality of service delivery and plans future service development to meet the needs of service users.
The housing support providers might help people:
In Kirklees over 6500 people each year are supported through the Supporting People programme. The vulnerable
groups helped by the programme include:
Supporting People is funded though the council's area based grant.
The programme is delivered in partnership with health, probation and service provider organisations. These
organisations include specialist support agencies, housing associations which offer support services, and some
of the council's own in-house services.
The table below provides the submission and payment dates. We have to check and validate
some of the information supplied with housing benefit data before payments can be adjusted. We do our best to
make sure all adjustments are dealt with as quickly as possible.
For more information, or any queries regarding payments please contact the Supporting People Team on 01484 221721.
The dates below show when Key Performance Indicators (KPI) workbooks must be submitted. Failure to submit the workbook(s) by the deadline
will result in a Default Notice being issued. If your service is issued with more than two default notices the
contract could be terminated, so please make sure you meet the deadlines. Any queries please contact the team.
A Client Record Form must be completed for each new client who enters a service funded by Supporting People.
This is a requirement of your Supporting People contract. However, the following services remain exempt from
the Client Records:
A Long Term Outcome Form must be completed for a 50% sample of clients receiving supporting people funded services. This is generally done annually at the time of the support plan review. All documentation is available on Client record and outcome: www.supportingpeople.st-andrews.ac.uk. Contact details: CHR - SP Client Record Office The Observatory University of St Andrews Buchanan Gardens St Andrews Fife KY16 9LZ Email helpdesk: sphelp@standrews.ac.uk Tel: 01334 461765 Fax: 01334 463920
Services which are funded through Supporting People are provided by a range of organisations; these include
housing associations, voluntary and community organisations along with statutory agencies.
Quality Assessment Framework (QAF)
The Supporting People Team have produced a directory of providers funded by the programme. Alternatively, for more information call: Kirklees Supporting People Team Personalisation & Commissioning Gateway to Care 30 Market Street Huddersfield HD1 2HG Tel: 01484 221271 Email: supporting.people@kirklees.gov.uk
Sitra is an umbrella organisation committed to raising standards in the housing, care and support sector.
To find out more visit their website at: www.sitra.org
Kirklees Council has established Approved Lists in relation to various categories of Supporting People requirements.
Prospective providers can go on to the approved provider list at any time as long as they pass the pre-qualification questionnaire. For further information please visit the scms website. The reference number is KMCSH-023. Further information regarding the Approved list procedure can also be found below. |
Accreditation Policy (PDF 76kb)