Maria Harfitt
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Comment on: Isle of Wight to halve supported homes cash
Now it was interesting that this story appeared on the same page as another one about the TSA. No wonder the TSA is greeted by housing professionals as an irrelevance - their focus on glib promises of tenant empowerment and tough regulatory regime for housing providers misses the point.
What many tenants I am sure want and need, and what housing providers would welcome is an organisation that backs up the needs of their clients in the face of cuts by ensuring that there are no cutbacks to Supporting People funding. This would enable housing providers to do their jobs and support vulnerable clients adequately.
Would it not be better that an organisation such as the TSA concentrates on challenging the reduced funding in Supporting People budgets that other councils will be itching to implement? This surely would be empowering and serving the needs of tenants, in particular, the most vulnerable rather than the well worn concentration on such practically meaningless policyspeak as 'outcome based standards'?
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