This report is part of the National Academy for Social Prescribing Accelerating Innovation Programme and explores how we could accelerate collaboration between social housing and the social prescribing community.
The H factor: Hope, health, and happiness – an evaluation of the social prescribing service at whg
New white paper exploring how the housing sector can deliver sustainable communities alongside sustainable homes.
The deadweight figures source is now available. Deadweight refers to what would have happened anyway in the absence of an intervention – by incorporating deadweights, this ensures that only the additional social value created by the user of the SVB is calculated. The deadweight figures are being re-estimated since the previously used UK government source is now dated and is unlikely to accurately reflect true deadweight figures. Download the methodology note below for more detail on deadweights and the updates that have been made.
In addition to re-estimating the wellbeing values, this update to the SVB aims to supplement this analysis with the incorporation of new dimensions, including exchequer values. An exchequer value values the indirect, secondary impacts of an outcome in net fiscal terms to the government in the form of tax receipts, benefit payments and cost reductions.
The Methodology Note for Wellbeing Values first outlines the broad approaches adopted across the HACT wellbeing values, before setting out specific estimation details on an outcome-by-outcome basis.
Exploring the steps needed to achieve a more integrated and strategic approach between health, housing and social care.
This briefing reviews the experience of integrating health and housing services. It identifies the lessons from this experience and suggests ways in which integrated care systems and their partners can better integrate health, housing and housing-related services. It also explores how this can best be achieved in practice to deliver good outcomes for people seriously affected by mental illness and to improve population mental health.
Supported housing is a hugely valuable and cost-effective housing option for people with mental illness. It enables them to live independently in the community and saves the NHS and other public agencies money. The research commissioned by Rethink Mental Illness demonstrates that, under government proposals, those with the highest support needs will no longer have the guarantee of their rent being met by housing benefit. The report provides recommendations to ensure people severely affected by mental illness have a place to call home.
This brief paper looks at the some of potential economic benefits that may be realised through the inclusion of housing services as part of the acute care recovery pathway for people with mental health problems.
Developing an affordable housing programme, social value evaluation and calculator