Supporting People strategy - 2008-2011

Rochdale's Supporting People three year strategy 2008-2011 will help shape the future of supported housing services in the borough of Rochdale.

This Strategy provides an update on Rochdale’s Five Year Supporting People Strategy 2005/2010. It draws together work undertaken by the Supporting People team and partners and forms the basis for clear commissioning plans for the programme up to the end of March 2011.

This strategy sets out a vision for the future, together with nine key priorities. It also sets out our plans for achieving change.

Supporting People will enable and empower vulnerable people to achieve and maintain the maximum independence.

Rochdale's Supporting People Strategy 2008-2011

The strategy is supported by a technical appendix which gives background information on the strategy including:

• The national strategy for Supporting People
• Targets for socially excluded groups
• A summary of supply, needs, demand and gap analysis
• Priorities identified at a strategy away day and
• Supporting People enabling priorities

Supporting People Strategy technical appendix 2008-2011

Strategic priorities

Our nine strategic priorities are:

• Develop Specific Service Provision for ex offenders or link to the commissioning of other services
• Reconfigure single homeless services
• Develop specific service provision for people with substance misuse problems
• Increase the number of supported lodgings across the borough specifically for young people with substance misuse problems and teenage parents.
• Support to rough sleepers
• Low level generic floating support
• Expansion of support services for people with mental health problems
• Consider the need for additional Supporting People funding in the provision of extra care
• Review services for women as victims of Domestic Violence and commission new services if required