Minutes agreed KMPT Service and Care See attached notes for pathway. Julie Delahaye LHAs and Care co-ordinators to link together to Pathway – Julie Delahaye Lesley Clay ensure good communication and joint working. and Julia Harrison Problems with people who have mental health issues presenting at housing and being put into temporary accommodation Links to be made with managers of CMHTs. pending involvement from mental health teams. Best to contact care coordinator; if Meeting to be held at Priority House to include not responsive, contact seniors to have a May 2017 reps from CMHT and Hospitals for T&F group. dialogue about how the care plan is going. JD to forward names and nos. Of CMHTs to LC to circulate. Mental Health Protocols To be reviewed at T&F group Affordability in Social Recent welfare reforms including the Kent Housing KHG Developed Protocol re affordability Housing – Deborah spare room subsidy, single room rent for Group White under 35 year olds and benefits capping , Affordability criteria to go onto Kent together with the incoming change from Kent Homechoice. housing benefit rates to local housing rates Homechoice to those in social housing, is putting pressure on housing providers as to Lesley Clay LC to inform JPPB when done whether clients can afford properties in the social sector. Kent Housing Group has been looking at a protocol on how housing providers, including Housing Associations will do affordability assessments. When there is an allocation the affordability calculation is done as to whether the client can afford the rent. Potentially, those under 22 claiming Universal Credit, those under 35, people who are fully benefit dependent who are capped will be at risk of not being able to
Minutes agreed KMPT Service and Care Pathway – Julie Delahaye and Julia Harrison See attached notes for pathway. Problems with people who have mental health issues presenting at housing and being put into temporary accommodation pending involvement from mental health teams. Best to contact care coordinator; if not responsive, contact seniors to have a dialogue about how the care plan is going. May 2017 Julie Delahaye Lesley Clay LHAs and Care co-ordinators to link together to ensure good communication and joint working. Links to be made with managers of CMHTs. Meeting to be held at Priority House to include reps from CMHT and Hospitals for T&F group. JD to forward names and nos. Of CMHTs to LC to circulate. Mental Health Protocols To be reviewed at T&F group Affordability in Social Housing – Deborah White Recent welfare reforms including the spare room subsidy, single room rent for under 35 year olds and benefits capping , together with the incoming change from housing benefit rates to local housing rates to those in social housing, is putting pressure on housing providers as to whether clients can afford properties in the social sector. Kent Housing Group has been looking at a protocol on how housing providers, including Housing Associations will do affordability assessments. When there is an allocation the affordability calculation is done as to whether the client can afford the rent. Potentially, those under 22 claiming Universal Credit, those under 35, people who are fully benefit dependent who are capped will be at risk of not being able to Kent Housing Group Kent Homechoice Lesley Clay KHG Developed Protocol re affordability Affordability criteria to go onto Kent Homechoice. LC to inform JPPB when done