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Homeshare Practice Guide
Launch of the Homeshare Practice Guide
5 July 2006 saw the launch of the new Homeshare Practice Guide at an event at
Richmond House attended by senior figures from the Department of Health ADSS and
SCIE as well as people from the voluntary and statutory sectors with an interest
in Homeshare.
Homeshare is a simple way of helping people to help each other and uses the resources
of ordinary people and communities to give people the support and housing that
they need. Homeshare was identified in the Green Paper "Independence Well Being
and Choice" as an innovative model of social care that the government wished to
become more widely available. The value of Homeshare to individuals was expressively
explained by London householder, Mrs Patrick, and underlined in speeches at the
launch by representatives from the Department of Health and ADSS.
NAAPS and Oxford Brookes University were funded through Change Up to develop
a web based Practice Guide that could be used by organisations and individuals
wishing to develop Homeshare Programmes in England. Their work was overseen by
a Steering Group chaired by the Social Care Institute for Excellence and with
a membership drawn from older people and disability organisations as well as regulators
and Homeshare organisations.
The Practice Guide is the culmination of a year long piece of work and draws
upon the experience of successful Homeshare programmes throughout the world. It
is constantly being updated and the latest version is available below.
For the password to open the Practice Guide please contact Deborah Power on deborah@naaps.org.uk