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Supported housing

Supported housing is usually for people with disabilities who need housing-related or care-related support. People can have their own tenancy and may live independently or three or four people may live at the same address.

North Yorkshire Supporting People is a partnership of North Yorkshire County Council, Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby Councils as well as the Probation Service and the North Yorkshire Primary Care Trusts.

The Supporting People programme plans, commissions and funds housing related support for vulnerable people. It is a national programme which was initiated by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and came into operation on the 1 April 2003. It is operated at a local authority level and in North Yorkshire it is administered by North Yorkshire County Council on behalf of the wider partnership.

Supporting People is regarded as a preventative programme, to contribute to a range of other key government targets and objectives both at a local and national level relating to:
  • tackling homelessness
  • increasing the range and choice of Housing open to people with learning disabilities
  • improving the quality of life and independence of vulnerable older people by supporting them to live in their own homes
  • increasing the participation of problem drug users in treatment
  • reducing re offending
  • improving health outcomes for people with long-term conditions
  • ensuring that all under 18 teenage parents who cannot live with their family or partners are offered supported housing
  • enabling adults with mental health problems to live at home
  • tackling social exclusion

Email: supporting.people@northyorks.gov.uk