Supporting and empowering disabled people in housing
Supporting and empowering disabled people in housing
This workshop introduces and explores a social model approach to supporting and empowering disabled people in housing. It presents an evidence base and practice learning for social care practitioners who support disabled adults with their individual housing needs and preferences. It considers the barriers which disabled people can face in securing safe and suitable accommodation, the opportunities to challenge inequality in housing options and strategies for providing person-centred support.
Audience Types
Practitioners
Social workers
Team leaders
Senior practitioners
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - The role of social workers | Person-centred practice | Direct work with individuals and families | Effective assessments and outcome based support planning | Values and ethics | Developing confident and capable social workers | Assuring good social work practice and development | Promoting and supporting critical analysis and decision-making | Relationship-based practice supervision | Effective use of power and authority as a practice supervisor
CQC - Safe | Effective | Caring | Responsive
PCF - Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Knowledge | Critical reflection and analysis | Intervention and skills | Diversity and equality | Values and ethics | Professionalism
RCOT - Understanding relationship | Service users | Develop intervention | Collaborative | Health and safety | Identify needs
Working together across the housing and social care workforce: Practice Tool (2023)
This resource explores opportunities for successful relationships across housing and adult social care services. It covers a range of contexts in which these services may overlap, proposing tips, tools and examples for effective partnership working, drawn from practice and research evidence.
Empowering disabled people in housing
Disabled people still encounter disadvantage in housing, Dr Laura Hemingway explores how we can utilise an important new tool to ensure this changes.