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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