What's New
What's New? 
Performance Management Report
View the Performance Management Report here 357.79 KB 
Supporting People National Strategy
The Independence and Opportunities Strategy
sets out how Government will work with authorities, service providers and service users, to ensure that Supporting People continues to develop to best meet the needs of the over one million service users that SP helps to support every year.
At its core are four key themes: Keeping service users at the heart of the programme; Enhancing partnership with the Third Sector; Delivering in the new Local Government landscape, and; increasing efficiency and reducing bureaucracy.
The strategy though is not an end point. The good relationships that have been built up between all those involved in the progamme, and the strong dialogue emerging from that will need to continue as we move into a new setting and face new challenges.
Floating Support Services
Referral Form for Floating Support Services in Tameside. 127.89 KB
Housing Services for Older People
Information on Housing Services for Older People is available.
The Service User Newsletter is here!
The Tameside Supporting People Team organised a course for service users on desktop publishing. The outcome was a newsletter created by service users for service users.
View the latest copy of the newsletter.
Look Ahead - Guide launced to help reduce risk in supported housing projects.
Look Ahead Housing and Care has produced a good practice guide to help supported housing providers plan for risk management. Look Ahead hope that the guide will help Supporting People Providers improve their working practices as well as meet the standards stipulated in the Quality Assessment Framework.
TitledPositive Risk Taking, the good practice guide uses snapshots of a recent research project to contextualise the importance of risk assessment and highlight the problems organisations are currently facing in trying to manage this imperfect science. It acknowledges that a onc size fits all appraoch does not work for managing risk and therefore provides a framework including checklists and pointers to help organisations develop their own risk assessment process.
Chris Hampson, Director of Strategy and Service Delivery at Look Ahead Housing and Care commented:
"We have to accept that housing vulnerable people is risky business. We know from our initial research that some organisations are still struggling to pin point what constitutes risk and how to manage it.
"This guide should be a useful tool to others, in particular small providers, working within supported housing and care, who may not yet have a robust risk management process in place. For others it may serve as a checklist against which to audit existing practices, inspiring further action and debate about risk."
Good Practice Guide 1.05 MB
Or you can 
email us and we will post you a hard copy.
The Supporting People Directory is now online!
The Supporting People Local Directory 1.92 MB of services is now available online. The Directory contains information on all the Supported Housing schemes in Tameside, which is broken down into client group.
Fire Safety Information for vulnerable people.
The OPDM have produced a document, Fire Safety Information for Homeless People. 17.27 KB
New Online resource for Support Providers.
Lemos and Crane - award winning producers of RaceActionNet and BMEspark - have developed a new online framework for supporting homeless and vulnerable people to achieve social and emotional aspirations. SupportActionNet is free to join and can be used by Local Authorities, Housing Associations, Community and Voluntary Providers and other organisations for writing policies, procedures and quality assurance systems, as well as for staff development.
For more information, please go to www.supportactionnnet.org.uk
Creating Sustainable Communities: Supporting Independence - Easy Read Version.
The OPDM have produced an easy read version of the Creating Sustainable Communities Document. The easy read version is much more concentrated on what constitutes a good service and how we can make sure that this is what is delivered. Please find the document in PDF format below.
Creating Sustainable Communities: Supporting Independence. 529.72 KB
Performance Workbook Guidance.
Please see below guidance on how to fill in the performance workbooks.
Performance Workbook Guidance. 123.7 KB
Latest Documents from the KWeb
Underneath you will find a document from the KWeb, which details information for AA's and Providers about the identification of ineligible support charges by Housing Benefit officers.
Ineligible Charges. 14.92 KB