Housing – helping people keep a roof over their heads
Housing Services include a range of housing related support projects helping people gain access to and maintain a rood over their heads. The activity is focused on supporting vulnerable individuals to gain the necessary skills to maintain tenancies and live independently. Anglia Care Trust delivers housing services both on an independent basis and as part of a group of agencies, working together and known as the SNAP Consortium.
Floating Support
Floating Support is the name given to short term housing support services, which enable people to live independently in their own homes. The service is delivered as part of our work with the SNAP Consortium.
The service centres around providing low level tenanct related support. Some examples of the support offered include:- Developing life skills
- Encouraging involvement in the community
- Supporting access into education, employment and training
- Maximising income, budgeting and debt advice
- Promoting health and wellbeing
- Dealing with rent arrears.
As the first point of contact for people seeking housing support on a short term basis, the access and referral service takes enquiries, listens to and understands the support need and then guides the individual towards the most appropriate support service. Both CARA and floating support can be accessed on www.carasnap.org.
Accommodation Based Support
The accommodation based support service provides short term housing support services, for people who are living in temporary accommodation. The key aims of such services are to enable people to develop their skills in maintaining a home and assist them in finding a permanent home of their own. In providing accommodation based services Anglia Care Trust works with both adults and young people.
Adults – Working with offenders and vulnerable adults who are at risk of offending, individuals are referred by external agencies. Anglia Care Trust maintains a waiting list for those whose immediate housing need cannot be met.
Young People – Working with young people aged 16+, who are either leaving care, or else at risk of being homeless, individuals are referred by agencies to Anglia Care Trust. As with our adult support service, where we cannot meet the immediate housing needs of those seeking assistance, we maintain a waiting list.
Triangle Tenancies Scheme
The scheme is a response to a lack of accommodation for offenders who are able to live independently and ready to move into permanent accommodation. Anglia Care Trust works closely with local private landlords, leasing accommodation from them in order to sublet to those individuals who have successfully demonstrated their ability to manage a tenancy.
Anglia Care Trust provides the necessary tenancy management throughout the lifetime of the lease and we work closely with other support agencies to ensure individuals settle into an independent lifestyle.