Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, People, on proposals to establish a specialist team within the Halton Supported Housing Network Support Team.

It was reported that the proposed specialist team of six staff would be based at the new emergency flats at Bredon and in the community as a whole. The new service option at Bredon flats had been established and built in response to two key demands; the need to find immediate accommodation when care packages had broken down; and the effective and safe care for service users engaged in behaviour that challenged services. The Board was advised that an emergency staff support team would enhance the models of support already provided. This would have positive implications for some of Halton’s most vulnerable service users and was key to Halton’s strategic commitment to the Transforming Care Agenda.

RESOLVED: That Executive Board support the establishment of a specialist team within the existing Supporting Housing Network Service, as detailed within the report.