HACT works with the housing sector, government, and communities to develop innovative approaches to meeting housing needs. They believe housing provides a foundation for improving lives and strengthening communities. The document discusses the importance of community participation and independent living. It argues for a person-centered approach focusing on abilities rather than deficits. The document also addresses issues like the separation of housing and support services, early intervention, and the challenges of integrating services horizontally across sectors and vertically across government levels to better serve individuals.

1. OECD Integrated Services and
Housing Consultation
Andrew van Doorn
HACT

2. HACT’s mission
HACT works with the housing sector, government, civil
society and communities to develop and share innovative
approaches to meeting changing housing need.
HACT believes housing provides a foundation for changing
people’s lives for the better. We seek to influence housing
practice and policy to transform lives and strengthen the
resilience of communities.
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

3. Why?
• Importance of ‘home’ as a
(supportive) concept
• Delivery in non-institutional
settings
• Support Independent Living
• Community Participation
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

4. The importance of the person
• Starting point – the organisation
or the individual?
• Traditional focus – needs,
deficits and entitlements
• Future focus – abilities, assets,
responsibilities and rights
• Choice and control
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

5. Importance of the community (and
families)
• Communities, of place and
interest, important in our lives
• ‘Ordinary’ housing in ‘ordinary’
communities
• Participation
• Peers support
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

6. Housing ‘Sausage Mill’
• Staircasing approach to
independence
• Housing First
• Sustaining housing with support
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

7. Separation of housing from care and
support
• Should the provision of housing be separated from the
provision of care and support?
• Supporting People programme in the UK
• Benefits:
– tenure neutral, greater choice, portability, commissioning
collaboration
• Problems:
– Capital investment, strained business model, disinvestment, loss of
cross-subsidy
• May work for some and not for others
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

8. Inputs, outputs and outcomes
• Main focus on inputs and
outputs in commissioning,
efficiency and quality
• Little concern given to
outcomes – what matters to
people
• Risk of creating new institutions
• Weaknesses in the evidence
base
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

9. Early intervention and prevention
• Focus on crisis and what
happens next
• Significant value in early
intervention and prevention
• Difficult to measure and be
future focused
• Major shift in how we use
current resources and
professional roles
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

10. INTEGRATION

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@HACThousing

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@HACThousing

13. What do we mean by integration
• Horizontal integration – across
types of services
• Vertical integration – between
tiers of government
• From the perspective of the
individual – personal budgets
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

14. What does it take to integrate
• Policy
• Commissioning/Investment
• Culture
• Multi-disciplinary
• The person
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

15. The way forward
• OECD consultation
• EU network – FEANTSA,
CECODHAS and EASPD
• Involvement of people with
lived experience
• Remember - abilities, assets,
rights and responsibilities!
www.hact.org.uk
@HACThousing

16. Thank you!
www.hact.org.uk
andrew.vandoorn@hact.org.uk