Now you see it…
Published 18 June 2009
More than 40 years of specific funding to support homeless, vulnerable and isolated people is about to disappear into area-based grant. Will the money ever be seen again? ask Maurice Condie and Neal Penney
There used to be an alphabet soup of funding for supported housing, stretching back to the 1970s – board and lodge, general counselling and support within HB, HDG, SNMA, TSNMA, SHMG, PAGs and THB. Anoraks may remember what all the acronyms stood for and can probably come up with many more, but it no longer matters, as all those strands were pulled together into one big pot called Supporting People. Now, its days are also numbered.
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