‘Good’ CQC rating for our Supported Living Learning Disability Services
Prior to the covid-pandemic, we were required to register our 26 Supported Living learning disability services as single services with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rather than grouped as one entity. As a result, each service needs to be individually inspected.
Following a hiatus due to the pandemic, the CQC has now inspected three of our services over the past nine months, all of which have been rated as ‘Good’.
New ‘Transition & Resettlement’ Housing Support service opens in Brighton and Hove
Launching on 1st September 2021, the Transition & Resettlement Service supports people to transition and successfully settle into independent accommodation.
The service is delivered by Southdown and funded by Brighton & Hove City Council and forms part of the Next Steps Strategy, to help ensure some of the most vulnerable people in society continue to have a roof over their heads and are helped into long term accommodation.
Enrolment opens for Brighton & Hove Recovery College’s Autumn term
Brighton and Hove Recovery College, offer educational courses as a route to recovery from mental health challenges. All their courses are FREE and designed and delivered by people with lived experience of mental health challenges, together with clinical staff and other professionals.
The College is provided in partnership with the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and as part of the Community Roots network of mental health support.
Their upcoming Autumn term will run from 27th September to 3rd December.
‘Starts at Home’ highlights value and importance of supported housing
What is Starts at Home?
Back in 2015, the government announced it was changing the funding model of supported housing. These changes would make it more difficult for the sector to build the much-needed new supported housing schemes and it risked the closure of critically important existing schemes. In response, the NHF created Starts at Home with its members, as a moment and story for supported housing.
What has the campaign achieved?
Investors In People – GOLD!
Investors in People is the international standard for people management, defining what it takes to lead, support and manage people effectively to achieve sustainable results. Underpinning the Standard is the Investors in People framework, reflecting the latest workplace trends, essential skills and effective structures required to outperform in any industry. Investors in People enables organisations to benchmark against the best in the business on an international scale.
The Assessor gathered information from the survey sent to staff and several individual interviews.
Community Roots network wins local Mental Health award
We are thrilled and proud to announce that the Community Roots network has won the ‘Mental Health’ category award of the Community Star and Care Awards 2021.
Funded by NHS Brighton and Hove CCG and Brighton and Hove City Council, Community Roots brings together 16 local providers to strengthen, develop and integrate mental health support for different levels of need, with Southdown as lead provider.
Roisin Murphy, Partnership Manager for Community Roots said:
Community Roots shortlisted as a finalist in the Sussex Community Star & Care Awards 2021
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Community Roots has been nominated and shortlisted as a finalist within the Mental Health category of the Sussex Community Star & Care Awards 2021.
Funded by NHS Brighton and Hove CCG and Brighton and Hove City Council, Community Roots brings together 16 local providers to strengthen, develop and integrate mental health support for different levels of need, with Southdown as lead provider.
The awards are hosted by the Brighton Argus who say:
Community Roots’ First Review – October 2019 – March 2021
We are pleased to be able to share Community Roots’ First Review report with you covering the first 18 months of the network, from October 2019 – March 2021.
Funded by NHS Brighton and Hove CCG and Brighton and Hove City Council, Community Roots brings together 16 local providers to strengthen, develop and integrate mental health support for different levels of need, with Southdown as lead provider.
Martin Dominy, Head of Service, Mental Health at Southdown said:
Enrolment is open for Brighton & Hove Recovery College’s Summer Term
Brighton and Hove Recovery College, offer educational courses as a route to recovery from mental health challenges. All their courses are FREE and designed and delivered by people with lived experience of mental health challenges, together with clinical staff and other professionals.
The College is provided in partnership with the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and as part of the Community Roots network of mental health support.
New ‘Pathways Home’ Housing Support service opens in West Sussex
Launched on 1st April 2021, Pathways Home is a new Housing Support service operating in all areas of West Sussex, jointly funded through West Sussex County Council and the seven Local Authorities in West Sussex.
Services are accessed through the Housing Needs Teams at the relevant District or Borough Council and are aimed at people aged 18 + who need housing support to sustain independent living or prevent homelessness.
The support offered is responsive to people’s changing needs and builds on their strengths, allowing them to move along a pathway to independence.
Ambitious Homeless Project Launched in Eastbourne
The Rotary Club of Eastbourne has just launched its most ambitious charity fundraising project of recent times and is calling out for support and donations in kind or in cash.
Its ‘Homes for Homeless’ initiative aims to raise £400,000 to provide four one-bedroom homes to reduce the number of people living on the streets of Eastbourne. Money raisied will enable the local Rotary Club to fund, refurbish and furnish a suitable property dedicated to providing a dignified abode for homeless people in the town.
The Lighthouse reaches the final of the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards
We’d like to congratulate our team at The Lighthouse; a specialist service for adults living in Brighton and Hove experiencing Personality Disorder and Emotional Intensity problems.
Last night (Wednesday 17th March) they attended the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards after being announced a finalist in the Integrated Care Partnership of the Year category.