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Supporting recovery: Housing and accommodation survey

DrugScope, the Substance Misuse Skills Consortium and Recovery Group UK have recently come together to form the Recovery Partnership, to provide a new collective voice for the sector to Ministers and Government. The Partnership is preparing a short paper for the Inter Ministerial Group on Drugs on housing and accommodation support for people in treatment and recovery. We would be grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete this survey to help inform the content of the paper.

We would like to hear from you if you have examples of good practice or innovative working in the provision of, or support to access, accommodation and housing for people with drug or alcohol problems. Please send any examples to Martin Barnes at martinb@drugscope.org.uk

The deadline for completing the survey is 5.00pm on Monday 4th July.

All responses to the survey will be anonymised in any report or briefing.

1.Contact information:
2.How would you describe the accessibility of housing services in your locality for clients of drug and alcohol services?
3.What do you expect to happen to your client’s ability to access housing services over the next 12 months?
4.How would you describe the accessibility of safe, secure and appropriate accommodation in your locality for clients of drug and alcohol services?
5.What do you expect to happen to your client’s ability to access safe, secure and appropriate accommodation over the next 12 months? It will be...
6.The Supporting People programme has funded residential support for clients of drug and alcohol services. With the removal of ‘ring-fencing’, local authorities have been given discretion over how they use this money. What, if any, is the impact in your area?
7.If you have answered that Supporting People funding is either decreasing or increasing, are you able to provide an estimation of the scale of this change?
8.How would you describe the engagement of local housing stakeholders in the recovery agenda?
9.How would you describe progress towards more effective joint working between the housing or homelessness sector and drug and alcohol treatment organisations in your local area?
10.How would you describe the training needs of people working in drug and alcohol services on housing and homelessness issues in your local area?
11.How would you describe the training needs of people working in housing and homelessness issues on drug and alcohol issues in your local area?
12.What change or changes in policy and/or practice would you like to see to improve housing support services and accommodation for your clients and people in recovery?
13.Please add any further information about supporting recovery and access to accommodation, housing or housing support services.