The Supporting People Programme - Communities and Local Government Committee Contents


Annex B

  Questions asked in the Supporting People Consultation paper 2005[60]

SUPPORTING PEOPLE IN ITS STRATEGIC CONTEXT

    — What more can Government and authorities do to ensure that Supporting People sits within an integrated approach to the strategic planning and commissioning of local level services?

    — How could we ensure appropriate and useful outcome measures for housing related support at the national level? What more might authorities and providers do to set outcomes at a local level?

    — How might Government encourage the provision of housing related support and other preventative services within the broader local government performance framework?

    — How might this be approached in a two-tier situation?

    — What more might central and local government do to build upon, and transfer more widely, the steps already taken to create a user focus within Supporting People?

FOCUSING AND INTEGRATING SUPPORT

    — Does the model described in this document provide a helpful approach to providing a new focus for housing related support? How could it be done better?

    — What more can Government, authorities and providers do to focus services more effectively on individuals to create better choice and control? What are the obstacles to delivering that?

    — Are there any obstacles specific to integrating care and support services? How might they be overcome?

    — What more can be done to focus on support to enable people to stay in their own homes?

    — What are the obstacles to delivering that, and how could they be overcome?

    — What more can be done to ensure that authorities make proper provision for socially excluded groups? How might this be incentivised, including through outcomes and through performance arrangements?

    — What more can be done to ensure that services for mobile groups are planned across local authority boundaries in terms both of housing related support and more broadly? What are the obstacles to collaborative working, and how might they be overcome?

    — What challenges and issues need to be tackled in addressing these issues in two-tier situations? How could this be done?

FUNDING

    — What approach should we take to the future allocation of funding for housing related support?

    — To what extent should we carry out redistribution of funding between authorities, and over what period?

    — How can we most effectively strike a balance between providing flexibility and ensuring ongoing investment in housing related support, including for more mobile vulnerable groups?

    — What more can authorities do to fund schemes which are regional priorities? How might Government approach funding schemes which meet national priorities?

    — How might we approach the introduction of incentives within a future Supporting People framework?

administering the Programme

    — What framework should be in place for the future administration of Supporting People?

    — Is a mandatory framework necessary and/or useful? If a specified framework is required, what changes might be made?

    — What arrangements should be in place to ensure the effective engagement of district authorities within a two-tier structure? Should districts be given a more direct role in commissioning and managing housing related support for vulnerable groups where they hold broader statutory and policy responsibilities?

    — What approach should local authorities develop for future performance and contract management?

    — What more is required for authorities to implement common administrative processes?

eSupporting People

    — How could Directory be used to help people access a wider variety of public services in a more integrated way? Which services might also be included—eg social services, health, education, transport, voluntary?

    — How can Directory be used to help local authorities work collaboratively to support mobility across boundaries?

    — How can Government most effectively support and facilitate outcome tracking and reporting?

    — Might this require some form of service user tracking system?

    — If so, for which vulnerable groups?

    — What more might we do to facilitate exchange of information between Supporting People and other services?

    — What additional e-based tools might be developed to assist Supporting People authorities and providers?



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