Floating Support
What is Floating Support?
Floating Support is a service that provides housing related support to vulnerable adults (over 16) to enable them to maintain their independence in their own home.
Floating support services will generally be short term (less than 2 years) and will have the flexibility to support a person wherever they live – as distinct from accommodation based services, where support is tied to particular accommodation.
This kind of support service help the individual to become more independent, and may mean that they can continue to live independently at home when with out support it would be difficult to do so.
Housing related support might include:
- Setting up and maintaining a home or tenancy
- Managing finances and benefit claims
- Developing independent living skills
- Gaining access to other services
- Help to make sure the clients accommodation is safe and secure
Supporting People funding cannot be used to fund housing management, personal or health care. Other sources of funding are available for these services. Supporting People funds are not to be used to discharge statutory duties, particularly under community care and homelessness legislation, aftercare services following hospital discharge.
The CLG (Communities and Local Government) have identified vulnerable client groups for whom the programme should provide support services. These include:
- Older people
- People with mental health problems
- People with learning or physical disabilities
- Victims of domestic violence
- People with drug and alcohol problems
- People who are homeless
- Refugees
- Teenage parents
- Young people at risk or leaving care
- People with HIV or AIDS
Some people will not have to pay for the support they receive. Other services are free to people who receive Housing Benefit, but require those not receiving Housing Benefits to have a Fairer Charging assessment. This assessment determines if the client will be required to make a contribution to the cost of their support.
Floating support providers in the Derwentside area include:
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