Housing Support Enabling Unit

CCPS Home » HSEU Home » Training » Events

Dumfries Housing Support Providers Event

Venue
Cairndale Hotel
English Street
Dumfries
DG1 2DF
Date
14 Feb 201214 Feb 2012 12:00:00 AM
Time
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Cost

Free

Booking Details

Please register by sending an email to Heather McCluskey.

Purpose of the event:

  • to hear from the Care Inspectorate about recent developments regarding the regulation of housing support as well as more general changes at the Care Inspectorate
  • to focus on the implications of Welfare Reform - particularly Universal Credit and the proposals for HB and Supported Housing
  • to consider the contribution housing support  can make to the Change Fund and general shift in focus to preventative services

Agenda

2.00pm Introductions, Housing Support Enabling Unit, Yvette Burgess

  • Role of the HSEU
    • Raising the profile of housing support

2.15pm Housing support regulation and recent developments at the Care Inspectorate - Heather Dall, Development Officer, Care Inspectorate

2.45pm  HB and Welfare Reform: Universal Credit and Supported Housing - Lorna Campbell, Principal Benefit Officer, Dumfries &Galloway Council

3.15pm - 3.30pm Coffee / tea

3.30pm The Change Fund and the contribution housing support can make: Linda Owen, Change Fund Programme Manager

4.00pm Close

A copy of the agenda is available here.