Housing and Care for Older People Newsletter - October 2006

Published by PSSRU at the University of Kent, October 2006

This newsletter outlines current activities and progress to date on the PSSRU's Evaluation of the Extra Care Housing Initiative. £87 million has already been made available by the government to local authority social services departments and housing providers to create up to 1,500 extra care housing places over 2006-2008. To date, funding has been agreed for 22 new-build schemes opening between April 2006 and Spring 2008, and these schemes form the basis for the evaluation.