Supporting children, families and adults across housing and social care
Supporting children, families and adults across housing and social care
This event shares an evidence base and practice learning for housing and social care professionals. It considers the challenges that people can face when drawing upon social care and housing services simultaneously, and the opportunities to better align support across the sectors.
The workshop is open to practitioners from children and families services, adults social care, and housing departments, providing an opportunity to learn with, and from, each other. Please note that although this event is open to all partners, the legislative content is specific to England.
Explore Research in Practice resources, developed as part of the Families and Homes Change Project, to support children, families and adults at the intersection of social care and housing.
Audience Types
Practitioners
Social workers
Team leaders
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Child and family assessment | Organisational context | Purposeful and effective social work | Developing confident and capable social workers
CQC - Effective | Responsive | Safe
PCF - Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Knowledge | Intervention and skills
RCOT - Service users | Identify needs
Families and homes: Change Project
The Families and Homes Change Project brought together academics, professionals from housing, children and families and adults social care, and people with lived experience. They worked together to develop tools to enable better support for families at the intersection of social care and housing.
Supporting families at the intersection of social care and housing: Strategic Briefing (2023)
This strategic briefing presents an evidence base for supporting families at the intersection of social care and housing services. The briefing explains some of the challenges and opportunities which can emerge when different local authority departments support the same families at the same time.
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.