Essential Connections
In early 2005, JIT in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland, the association of Directors of Social Work (ADSW) and Age Scotland, commissioned Essential Connections This programme of work aimed to raise awareness and understanding of the housing connections to health and social care.
The Essential Connections report, presented at the CIH annual conference in March 2005, illustrates through the stories of individual people how their needs cross housing, health and social care boundaries. You can download a copy of the report below.
Essential Connections booklet [526Kb]
The complexities of the variety of current funding streams for those commissioning services was emphasised to us. In response, we prepared Understanding the Funding Maze, a guide to the main sources of funding. The guide seeks to describe and demystify the major sources of funding made available by the Scottish Government for the health, care and support services to support independent living.
Understanding the Funding Maze [728Kb]
Demonstrators of Older People's Housing, Support, Health and Care
JIT launched an initiative in December 2007 designed to identify the housing aspects of a managed shift in the balance of care for older people at a locality level; capture and disseminate the experiences of partners and develop practical tools to assist other local partnerships. Following a competitive bidding process, three health and social care partnerships - Highland, Inverclyde and West Lothian - were awarded funding from the national Telecare Development Programme 'housing demonstrator projects'.
Further information about the Demonstrators can be accessed here.
