Guidance & Policy

This policy is used to assess when it is appropriate to pay Supporting People Grant.

It should be of assistance to providers of existing services and will also provide useful information to organisations wishing to secure Supporting People Grant for new services.

The money used to fund Supporting People is made up of various legacy funding streams. The largest of these was Transitional Housing Benefit.

Each of the funding streams assessed the eligibility of services using their own criteria. Assessment of eligibility thus differed between funds, organisations, local authorities, client groups, service types and landlord type.

 

It is therefore essential that under Supporting People there is a single eligibility criteria that can be applied consistently across all services and client groups, and which is clearly understood by Commissioners, providers and service users.

The Eligibility Policy will answer the following:

1. What is Supporting People?
2. Why do we need an Eligibility Criteria?
3. Who might be eligible for Housing Related Support Services?
4. What is Housing Related Support?
5. What are occasional Welfare Services?
6. Which services are non-eligible?

• Download the Eligibility Criteria.