Specialist Supported Housing (SSH)

Information Request NPH00-189/20

I am writing to respond to your request for information received on Thursday 30th January 2020 which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI).

Your request has been given the unique Information Request No. NPH00-189/20.  Please quote this reference on all correspondence relating to this request.

You have requested the following information. Our response is shown in bold.

1. For each year, what was the total paid out on Specialist Supported Housing under the Exempt category, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 (financial)

2. How much (if any) was paid out each financial year (2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19) to the following providers, if possible, please note 

(a.) how much was paid for accommodation costs (e.g. rent: through Local Housing Allowance rates etc,)

(b.) how much was paid for in-house support services (eg. service charge, for Care Support and Supervision, etc,) 

(c.) how many people were housed as a result of referrals by the council for accommodation in properties run by each provider (and each year)

I. Bespoke Supportive Housing Tenancies 
II. Westmoreland Supported Housing 
III. Brunelcare
IV. First Priority
V. Progress 
VI. Inclusion
VII. Golden Lane Housing (GLH) 
VIII. Reside 
IX. Dimensions 
X. Care HA 
XI. Advance
XII. Sustain (UK) Limited
XIII. Trinity Housing Association Limited

3. Since April 2019, please provide (a.) the names of all Registered Providers paid by the council to provide Specialist Supported Housing under the Exempt category since April 2019 to date, (b.) how much was paid to each since April 2019.

Northampton Partnership Homes is an arms-length management organisation (ALMO) that managed Northampton Borough Council’s housing services.

In response to the above questions, Northampton Partnership Homes can confirm the answer is nil.

The disclosure to you of the enclosed information does not give you a right to reproduce or publish such information without the express permission of Northampton Borough Council or any other owners of the copyright therein.  To do so you will need a licence under the ‘Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015’.

If you consider NPH has not provided the information you have requested you have the right to challenge that decision in respect of your information request within 6 months.

Please write to:

Information Access Challenges

Northampton Partnership Homes

The Guildhall

St Giles Square

Northampton

NN1 1DE

Otherwise please email: information@nph.org.uk.  Emails to this address are automatically acknowledged.

If your challenge is not resolved to your complete satisfaction, you will then have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner.

If you feel your request has been handled unfairly you should, in the first instance, complain using NPH’s Customer Feedback form and address it to the department you have been dealing with. NPH’s Complaints procedure (a full copy of which is available by telephoning or writing to NPH’s Data Management Officer) will then be used to try and resolve your complaint.

 

Yours sincerely,

Santina Chambers

Data Management Officer

Northampton Partnership Homes 

01604 838794 | 0300 330 7003

www.northamptonpartnershiphomes.org.uk