Supporting People - Five Year Strategy
ListenSupporting People is a partnership that involves the Council’s Social Services and Housing Department, the Bracknell Forest Primary Care Trust and the Thames Valley Probation Service.
Our aim is to improve quality of life for a range of vulnerable people, by helping them to live as independently as possible and play an active part in our community.
The partnership has developed the Supporting People Five Year Strategy in consultation with housing and support providers, health and social care professionals, criminal justice agencies and, most importantly of all, service users.
This inclusive approach has helped us to plan for how and where housing related support should be delivered in the future.
It has also enabled us to ensure that Supporting People will work as a preventative programme, helping our partners to meet wider objectives in areas such as:
- Health improvement, by enabling people with a range of mental and physical health needs to live in the community
- Community safety, by supporting the victims of crime and helping former offenders to re-integrate into society
- Community cohesion, by providing access to support services for Black and Minority Ethnic communities, as well as other groups that suffer exclusion and marginalisation
- Housing and homelessness, by preventing families and individuals at risk from losing their tenancies or falling into mortgage arrears
- Services to older people, by offering a choice of support options, regardless of tenure
Our budget for Supporting People is tight, and the Government has indicated that they may require further savings to be made. Nevertheless, we are confident that Supporting People will continue to make a real difference.
We need the whole range stakeholders and providers to help us make sure any changes we make are for the better. In the end, it will be for service users to judge our success.
The Bracknell Forest Supporting People Five Year Strategy is available for download on the right.
 |
