Campaigning to protect vulnerable people by keeping Supporting People as a properly funded, dedicated housing support programme.
Northern Ireland
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🚨@CommunitiesNI confirms that #SupportingPeople funding will not be cut in the 2023-24 budget. #keepspni communities-ni.gov.uk/news/d…
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Thanks to @Kelmba for hosting Long Gallery event to celebrate #20yearsofSupportingPeople programme. @KeepSP_NI @NIFHA
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Today @nihecommunity celebrates 20 years of #SupportingPeople. An essential service that provides housing support to give independence at home. It’s a critical service that #housingassociations are very proud to deliver, BUT it is inadequately funded and at risk of cuts.
#SupportingPeople providers are very concerned that the already strained SP budget could be cut. We campaigned hard to secure a funding uplift last year but that could be reversed as seen in the @nihecommunity response to the @CommunitiesNI #EQIA consultation.
We have today urged the Department for Communities to carefully consider the equality and service impacts of its budget allocations to ensure that those most in need are not left behind. Read our joint letter here: tinyurl.com/wasu2n2n
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Funding from the #SupportingPeople programme means that Eva has the opportunity to live alongside her peers and enjoy an active social life.
She shares what a ‘wonderful difference’ living in @RadiusHousing Donard Fold has made to her.
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Our #SupportingPeople staff are committed to making real change and their work has touched the lives of so many over 20 years.
On their anniversary year we would like to say thank you for your dedication, delivery and the difference you have made.
Very worrying news about huge cuts at @CommunitiesNI. #SupportingPeople funding for 19,000 of NI’s most vulnerable must be preserved. It’s already faced 15yrs of inflationary cuts. It can’t survive any more. #keepspni bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-i…
Considerable lobbying by CRISPP and many others in the sector secures new #supportingpeople funding - Programme supporting independent living in Northern Ireland gets uplift for first time in 15 years insidehousing.co.uk/news/new…
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NIFHA has welcomed the announcement that additional funding is to be provided for the #SupportingPeople programme, but cautions that more support is needed to ensure the programme can continue to deliver for vulnerable people. Read more here ▶️ bit.ly/3YNF0PN
At the @NIFHA finance conference today, it was noted that the sector continues to be under funding pressures in non-general needs housing. #supportingpeople cited as one of the economic pressures due to lack of inflationary uplifts. #NIFHAFC22 #keepspni
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Housing associations provide quality sheltered housing schemes but a lack of inflationary uplifts to #SupportingPeople funding which covers housing support costs is of grave concern to all providers.
Excellent event today. Important that we maintain and grow the funding for continued independent living. Better integration between housing and health required for long-term goals to be met. #Keepspni
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Sharon Burnett from @WomensAidNI speaking at #NIFHAHMC22 on the media disconnect between #domesticviolence and murder. Women’s Aid receives funding from #SupportingPeople, a valuable programme in need of an urgent funding uplifts to retain staff and pay rising costs.
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REMINDER for #SupportingPeople providers - Nominations for the Committee Representing Supporting People Providers (CRISPP) close Friday 30 September. Further information and the nomination form available here 👉 bit.ly/3dJ0I4y
REMINDER for #SupportingPeople providers - Nominations for the Committee Representing Supporting People Providers (CRISPP) close Friday 30 September. Further information and the nomination form available here 👉 bit.ly/3dJ0I4y
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To meet housing need for older people, we need to provide a comprehensive package of housing support to enable people to live independently at home in their later years. Invest now and take pressure of health services. @KeepSP_NI
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Excellent article @NIFHAPatrick highlighting need for long term and adequate funding for SP. Policy of chipping away at core funding is short sighted and will ultimately mean an increased burden on the NHS #housingandhealth @nihecommunity @HCIL_Ireland insidehousing.co.uk/comment/…
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NIFHA Interim Chief Exec writes in @insidehousing today about the cost pressures being faced by #SupportingPeople providers due to frozen funding and the lack of a functioning NI Assembly to allocate a new NI budget that could help the situation. @niexecutive @KeepSP_NI
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Sharon Burnett from @WomensAidNI providing very stark statistics on #domesticabuse and how current #SupportingPeople funding is not sufficient to maintain services or meet demand. @KeepSP_NI
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@nihecommunity has released it's #SupportingPeople social return on investment report which notes every £1 of SP funding provides £5.71 of social value. SP needs an urgent funding uplift to offset inflationary losses over past 15 yrs. nihe.gov.uk/Documents/Resear…
