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Oxfordshire Directory of Housing Related Support Services (Supporting People) Oxfordshire Directory of Housing Related Support Services (Supporting People) October 2012 Contents Page What is Housing Related Support (Supporting People) 3 How to use the directory 3 Cost of services 4 Further Information 4 Other useful sources of information (elderly, young, homeless and mental health) 5 Directory of Services Generic 7 Older People with support needs 10 People with a Physical or Sensory Disability 15 People with Drug Problems 17 People with Learning Disabilities 20 People with Mental Health Problems 21 Single Homeless with Support Needs 24 Teenage Parents 27 Women at Risk of Domestic Violence 29 Young People at Risk 33 2 What is Housing Related Support (Supporting People)? Housing related support services provide help to vulnerable groups of people including older people, enabling them to continue to live independently in their own home. The services are provided through a partnership of the County Council, five District Councils, the Thames Valley Probation Service and the Primary Care Trust. The Oxfordshire County Council Joint Commissioning Team manages and funds the services which different agencies provide for vulnerable people living in Oxfordshire. Information in the Directory and how to use it The services within this Directory are sorted by primary client group, by district and by ward. For each entry the following information is given Ward (unless service is provided in more than one ward where it is listed as various) Service name and name of organisation providing the service Service manager’s name Contact details for the service manager (postal address, telephone and fax number and email address). Where there is no particular named manager, the contact details for the provider of the service are given. General service type This indicates broadly the type of service, whether it is permanent (a long term service lasting more than two years), medium or short term, whether there is a warden resident or visiting, whether there is an alarm call service. Self referral This indicates whether you can apply to the service directly yourself and if not, how you can be referred, whether emergency referral is possible and if there is a waiting list. 3 Cost of services Short term services are always free of charge but there may be a charge for permanent services (those intended to last more than two years). Anyone wishing to find out if they can get help should contact the Supporting People Payments Team for a Supporting People Subsidy Application Form. For people in receipt of or applying for Housing Benefit, the cost of the service will usually be paid directly to whoever provides the service. People who do not qualify for Housing Benefit may be able to get help with payment by asking the Supporting People Payments Team for an assessment by a Fairer Charging Visiting Officer. The assessment will determine whether the user is eligible to pay nothing, pay at a reduced charge or will be expected to pay all the costs of their service. Further information Joint Commissioning Team Supporting People Payments Team County Hall Financial & Management Accounting New Road Supporting People Payments Team Oxford Shared Services OX1 1ND Oxfordshire County Council Unipart House Tel: 01865 894850 (Lorraine Donnachie) Garsington Road Or 01865 894854 (Duncan Hall) OXFORD OX4 2GQ E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 01865 797455 Website: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/supportingpeople Fax: 01865 783171 E-mail: [email protected] 4 Other useful sources of information Elderly Accommodation Counsel This provides advice to help older people make decisions about where to live, and any support or care they need. It helps older people maintain, adapt or improve their home; find care or home help services; or move to retirement, or extra care housing, or to a care home. The Counsel has a complete database of all sheltered housing in Great Britain to rent as well as to buy. For more information visit the website www.housingcare.org or telephone 020 7820 7867 ‘Young people’s survival guide for Oxfordshire’ Oxfordshire County Council Integrated Youth Support Service Macclesfield House New Road Oxford OX1 1NA Tel: 01865 815166 Email: [email protected] 5 ‘Survival Guide for homeless families and single people in Oxford’ Oxford City Council, November 2009 Oxford City Council PO Box 10 Oxford OX1 1EN Tel: 01865 249811 www.oxford.gov.uk ‘The Mind guide to mental health services in Oxfordshire’ Oxfordshire Mind 2 Kings Meadow Osney Mead Oxford OX2 0DP Tel: 01865 263730 Fax: 01865 263732 http://www.omhi.org.uk [email protected] www.oxfordshire-mind.org.uk ‘From Supported to Independent Living (SIL)’ SIL support services are for people with a range of mental health difficulties. The purpose of these services is to help people to live in the community and to achieve recovery. The services include supporting people in their own home or providing both accommodation and support. The services are funded by Oxfordshire County Council (Supporting People and Adult Social Care) and NHS Oxfordshire. The SIL web link is: http://bit.ly/mentalhealth-SIL 6 Ward Service Service Contact details General service type Self referral? name/organisation Manager name Generic - County Wide Various Stonham Generic Brian 14 Church Green, Witney, The housing related support Generic part Floating Support Monnery Oxfordshire OX28 4AW service will develop and Self Referral Home Group Ltd (West E: achieve independence and be welcome. (Stonham) Oxfordshir [email protected] targeted at vulnerable adults Emergency e and T: 01993 864936 of all age groups who are Referrals will be Cherwell or resident in Oxfordshire. The prioritised as far districts) T: 07795 436175 service will provide flexible as possible. F: 01993 862884 support to both people We aim to avoid establishing a new home and waiting lists but and and those already housed. Those will be clear about supported may be homeless, any waiting times Teresa 1st Floor, 213 Barns Road, Oxford living in rented or supported at point of referral Harman OX4 3UT accommodation or be (Oxford E: homeowners. The service will City, [email protected] be provided for as long as it is South T: 01865 335326 needed, up to two years, with Oxfordshir F: 01865 335321 a clear exit strategy. e and Vale The offender service is part of Offender part of White the Stonham floating support Self referrals are Horse service providing housing not accepted. districts) support in Oxfordshire. We Referrals are aim to provide a post custody accepted from service to those returning to probation officers the community from custody, and police or moving on from approved premises. Clients must be linked to the probation service or Integrated Offender Management teams 7 Ward Service Service Contact details General service type Self referral? name/organisation Manager name Generic - County Wide Various Connection Audrey Connection Floating Support The housing related support Generic part Generic Floating Irons Team, The Pathway Building, service will develop and Self Referral Support Dunnock Way, Blackbird Leys, achieve independence and be welcome. Connection Oxford, OX4 7EX targeted at vulnerable adults Emergency E: [email protected] of all age groups resident in Referrals will be T: 01865 711267 Oxfordshire. These services prioritised as far F: 01865 395444 will be providing flexible as possible. support to both people We aim to avoid establishing a new home and waiting lists but those already housed. Those will be clear about supported may be homeless, any waiting times living in rented or supported at point of accommodation or be referral. homeowners. The service will be provided for as long as it is needed, up to two years, with a clear exit strategy. The Offenders Floating Offender part Support Service provides Self referrals are housing related support not accepted for across Oxfordshire. The this service. service is aimed at medium/ Referrals from the high risk and or/ prolific Police or offenders who need to move Probation Service from approved premises, only other short term accommodation or returning from custody. Clients are 8 Ward Service Service Contact details General service type Self referral? name/organisation Manager name required to be linked to the Probation Service or if prolific offenders the Integrated Offenders Management Team. Generic (Former People with Learning Disabilities) - County Wide Various Shared Lives Sally Ellis 2 Foxcombe Court, Wyndyke The Shared Lives service No, via social Scheme Furlong, Abingdon, Oxfordshire provides a place to live in services Oxfordshire Shared OX14 1DZ the home of an approved Emergency Lives Scheme E: Shared Lives carer. The Referral [email protected] service is open to older No waiting list T: 01865 897971 people, people who have F: 01865 894930 mental health difficulties or any other vulnerable adult as well as people who have a learning disability. 9 Ward Service Service Contact details General service type Self referral? name/organisation Manager name Older people with support needs – County Wide Alert Service Various Oxfordshire Alert N/A The Alert service main point of The Alert Service is a The referral to the Service contact is Community Voice Ltd countywide service, Alert Service for Equipment Telephone: 01865 882231 available to vulnerable and new service users (County Wide) = Fax: 01865 884130 older people, who are 18 will be on Tunstall Health oxfordshirereferrals@communityv years and older, in their submission of a Care oice.org.uk chosen home. This service completed contact 24/7 Response has a maximum capacity of assessment form (County Wide) = 5,000. (.doc format, 347 Head Office Community Voice Kb) and an Alert Telephone: 0870 005 6411 Planned Support Fax: 01706 216499 It is made up of: Service Request Form (ASRF1) (Cherwell) = The provision, installation (.doc format, 260 Charter HA Chief Executive Officer at and maintenance of Kb).
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