Draft Report Knowsley 17 Dec 09

Annex A: Mapping provision

Supported housing provision

Service and provider / What it does / How to access it / Who it helps / Who it doesn’t help
Field Lane Hostel – Liverpool Housing Trust / Hostel
36 bedspaces
Keyworker system
Resettlement team helps with housing applications.
Hostel is being refurbished. 6 self-contained move-on units being incorporated into site. / Referrals
Referrals from Knowsley HPT take precedence for 24 hours.
Self-referralscan be made only after 6pm / Men 17-65 / Women
People actively using drugs
Kennelwood House – KHT
To be replaced with new block of self-contained units in 2010 / Hostel
9 units - 20 beds
New scheme: 13 units, 6 month length of stay / Must be referred by homeless team / Women with children
Vulnerable women – may include women with drug and alcohol problems.
Ross House
Knowsley Domestic Violence Support Services / Women’s refuge
11 units / Women and children facing domestic abuse
Will occasionally accommodate women who are in treatment for drug or alcohol / Women who are still using drugs
Shelagh Delaney House
/Octavia House SHAP / 9 beds in emergency hostel
8 bedspaces in resettlement hostel
17 flats in Huyton
39 flats in Kirkby
104 flats managed in Whiston / Referrals from Housing Advice, social workers, or other professionals / Young people: 16-21 in emergency hostel, 16-25 in other accommodation
Supported lodgings – MAP / Supported lodgings
20 beds
(+ 6 for mediation service) / Referrals from any agency, self-referrals, and from people offering support / Young people aged 16-17 / Young people with chaotic drug or alcohol problems or not in treatment
Roughdale Court
KBC / Supported accommodation
7 units / Young parents, 16-22 / No exclusions, but will evict people found to be in possession of alcohol or illegal drugs
Various mental health agencies / 44+ units

Services used outside Knowsley:

Liverpool / St Helens / Elsewhere
  • Ann Fowler House (women)
  • YMCA (single people)
  • Loango (single people)
  • Tuebrook (men)
  • Park View (single people with substance misuse problems)
  • Summergrove (families with substance misuse problems)
/
  • Breck Road(for ??)
  • Salvation Army (men)
  • Homeground (up to 35s)
  • Ann Conway House (for men
  • First Place (single men)
  • Aigburth Drive (men 40+)
  • Mildmay (men, up to 35)
/
  • YMCA St Helen’s (single people 18-55)
  • Sherdley House (for ??)
  • Salvation Army (men)
/
  • SEAD Project Sefton (16-25s)
Bosco House Sefton (single people, & people with drug / alcohol problems)

Floating support

Service and provider / What it does / How to access it / Who it helps / Who it doesn’t help
Tenants Extra Support Scheme (TESS) – Villages Housing / 12 units of floating support for substance misusers
(total of 63 floating support units) / Referrals from housing management and other agencies / All client groups, including drug and alcohol users / Tenants of other providers
Substance Misuse and Blood Borne Virus Social Work Team / 20 units of floating support for substance misusers / Referrals from social workers in the SM and BBV team, and other teams, and through that, from other agencies / Mainly people with alcohol problems, but also will also support drug users, and people with blood borne viruses / Under 18s
SHAP / 23 units of floating support for substance misusers / Drug and alcohol users
Offenders Floating Support – NovasScarman / 16 units for offenders
Offenders Floating Support – Stonham / 22 units for offenders
The Yes Project
(Centre 63) / 16 units for young people / Young people
Various / 20 units for people with mental health needs / People with mental health needs

Help to access housing or resolve housing problems

Service and provider / What it does / How to access it / Who it helps / Who it doesn’t help
Homelessness Prevention Service
KHT / One Stop Shop providing housing options advice, referrals to mediation, prevention work, assessment of homeless applications, and referrals to more specialist services. / Open access / Any homeless household or household at risk of homelessness / No specialist services, e.g. for young people or single homeless (but see below for offenders, and young offenders/care leavers)
High Priority Resettlement Panel / Facilitates applications for priority rehousing not catered for in the normal allocations criteria, with and links this to available support. / Referral to KHT Housing Strategy Team from other agencies / No set criteria but cases are likely to be accepted for:
  • Homeless people or people threatened with homelessness
  • Those in priority need where additional support is needed, or unable to get access to settled housing
  • Intentionally homeless: families, vulnerable individuals / couples
  • People leaving hospitals or care
  • Vulnerable individuals / families needing more appropriate accommodation who are at risk of homelessness because of high support needs, physical health problems, or other needs
/ No specific groups
Rent Bond Scheme
(Homelessness Prevention Team) / Provides rent bond that landlords can claim if tenants leaves causing damage or owing rent / Through HPT.
Assessment process includes homelessness assessment, and check by KASBO team / For homeless households with a priority need and people going through High Priority Resettlement Panel. / Those who can access social housing
People who have been involved in anti-social behaviour in the area of property.
Prevention Fund / Funds for debt, facilities, furniture, deposit, etc to prevent loss of home or ease access to accommodation. / HPT / For homeless households with a priority need and people going through High Priority Resettlement Panel / Not used for clearing rent arrears for social landlords
Placement Fund / Facilitates negotiation of placement in appropriate accommodation
Merseyside Probation Trust Accommodation Unit / Match offenders with housing needs with a housing provider, and monitor the provision of services / Through Offender Managers / Offenders on licence or under supervision on a community order (and short term prisoners through DIP teams but not in Knowsley) / People on bail and short term prisoners
Drugs Assessment And Treatment (DAAT) Housing Assessment Service / Provides housing advice and explores housing options through a session once per month at DIP offices (Kirkby & Huyton) / Through DIP team / Those on DRRs – voluntary appointment
YOT Resettlement and Accommodation Officer – post to be filled in 2010 /
  • Link in at an early stage for young people leaving custody
  • Case manage housing cases for young people leaving custody
  • Signpost to and liaise with other agencies for young people in the community
  • Act as a focal point for information for YOT staff
/ Referrals from YOT staff / Young ex-offenders and young people leaving custody or in the community who are homeless or threatened with homelessness

Substance misuse service

Service and provider / What it does / How to access it / Who it helps / Who it doesn’t help
Substance misuse and blood borne virus social work team / Assessment, co-ordination and safeguarding.
Includes some help on housing issues, through floating support team. Also supports alcohol user group / Referral from any agency / Drug and alcohol users
DIP - Addaction / Provides treatment & support to clients from point of arrest for trigger offence to release from custody. / Through being arrested.
3 contacts per week. / Offenders who are also drug users / e.g. female drug abusers found guilty of soliciting – not a trigger offence
Community Drug Teams – Addaction / Kirkby and Huyton / Open access / Drug users over the age of 18
Services for young people / 2 substance misuse workers in YOT
3 substance misuse nurses in PCT
2 youth workers and a healthy schools drugs advisor
1 substance misuse nurse in CAMHS
1 nurse working with parents and pregnant women using drugs / Under 18s
Dual Diagnosis / 5 members of staff based in CMHTs
Shared Care service – Knowsley PCT / Provides additional health care options for substance misusers leaving institutions and others / Do not have to be registered with a GP / People leaving hospital, rehab, prison, or fleeing domestic abuse or homeless
Alcohol Service Knowsley (ASK) / Provides detox facility and 13 community based clinics, at:
  • Tower Hill Primary Resource Centre, Kirkby (Monday afternoon)
  • Whiston Primary Resource Centre (Tuesday afternoon)
  • North Huyton Primary Care Resource Centre (Weds morning)
  • Prescot Resource Centre (Monday morning)
  • Manor Farm Primary Care Resource Centre (Tuesday afternoon)
ASK provides:
  • Counselling
  • Advice and information
  • Education and training
  • Brief treatment clinics
  • Referrals to Windsor Clinic
  • Liaison
/ Does not provide housing advice

Inreach services

Service and provider / What it does / Other information
Field Lane Hostel / Weekly drug / alcohol sessions provided by:
  • Addaction– CDT Kirkby
  • Alcohol nurse from Windsor Unit at FazakerleyHospital (ASK)
/ Thursday evenings
Thursday evenings
DIP Housing Surgery / Monthly housing advice sessions provided by SHAP at DIP offices (Kirkby & Huyton)
  • Advice on housing options
  • Help with filling in application forms
  • Make appointments with HPT
  • Signpost to other agencies
/ 3rd Thursday pm – Kirkby
4th Thursday pm – Huyton
DAAT Housing Assessment Service / Provides housing advice and explores housing options. / ??
Fire and Rescue Service / Advice and additional fire safety measures for tenants who pose a fire risk because of high level of alcohol use

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