NIFHA Interim Chief Exec writes in Inside Housing today about the cost pressures being faced by #SupportingPeople providers due to frozen funding and the lack of a functioning NI Assembly to allocate a new NI budget that could help the situation. NI Executive Supporting People NI

Excellent article @NIFHAPatrick highlighting need for long term and adequate funding for SP. Policy of chipping away at core funding is short sighted and will ultimately mean an increased burden on the NHS #housingandhealth Housing Executive @HCIL_Ireland insidehousing.co.uk/comment/we-nee…

To meet housing need for older people, we need to provide a comprehensive package of housing support to enable people to live independently at home in their later years. Invest now and take pressure of health services. ⁦Supporting People NI⁩ belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

REMINDER for #SupportingPeople providers - Nominations for the Committee Representing Supporting People Providers (CRISPP) close Friday 30 September. Further information and the nomination form available here 👉 bit.ly/3dJ0I4y

Sharon Burnett from Women's Aid NI speaking at #NIFHAHMC22 on the media disconnect between #domesticviolence and murder. Women’s Aid receives funding from #SupportingPeople, a valuable programme in need of an urgent funding uplifts to retain staff and pay rising costs.

Housing associations provide quality sheltered housing schemes but a lack of inflationary uplifts to #SupportingPeople funding which covers housing support costs is of grave concern to all providers.

Excellent event today. Important that we maintain and grow the funding for continued independent living. Better integration between housing and health required for long-term goals to be met. #Keepspni

At the NIFHA finance conference today, it was noted that the sector continues to be under funding pressures in non-general needs housing. #supportingpeople cited as one of the economic pressures due to lack of inflationary uplifts. #NIFHAFC22 #keepspni

NIFHA has welcomed the announcement that additional funding is to be provided for the #SupportingPeople programme, but cautions that more support is needed to ensure the programme can continue to deliver for vulnerable people. Read more here ▶️ bit.ly/3YNF0PN

Considerable lobbying by CRISPP and many others in the sector secures new #supportingpeople funding - Programme supporting independent living in Northern Ireland gets uplift for first time in 15 years insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/prog…

The CRISPP #SupportingPeople Committee met this afternoon. On the agenda was the recent SP funding uplift, salaries, increases in operating costs, restricted reserves and engaging with SP providers on representation in CRISPP.

Very worrying news about huge cuts at ⁦Communities NI⁩. #SupportingPeople funding for 19,000 of NI’s most vulnerable must be preserved. It’s already faced 15yrs of inflationary cuts. It can’t survive any more. #keepspni bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Funding from the #SupportingPeople programme means that Eva has the opportunity to live alongside her peers and enjoy an active social life. She shares what a ‘wonderful difference’ living in Radius Housing Donard Fold has made to her.

Our #SupportingPeople staff are committed to making real change and their work has touched the lives of so many over 20 years. On their anniversary year we would like to say thank you for your dedication, delivery and the difference you have made.

#SupportingPeople providers are very concerned that the already strained SP budget could be cut. We campaigned hard to secure a funding uplift last year but that could be reversed as seen in the Housing Executive response to the Communities NI #EQIA consultation.

Today Housing Executive celebrates 20 years of #SupportingPeople. An essential service that provides housing support to give independence at home. It’s a critical service that #housingassociations are very proud to deliver, BUT it is inadequately funded and at risk of cuts.

Thanks to Kellie Armstrong for hosting Long Gallery event to celebrate #20yearsofSupportingPeople programme. Supporting People NI NIFHA

Communities NI Perm Sec Colum Boyle speaks about NI Budget and appears optimistic about maintaining #SupportingPeople budget rather than speaking of cuts. #KeepSPNI #HousingAssociations #NIFHA23

🚨⁦Communities NI⁩ confirms that #SupportingPeople funding will not be cut in the 2023-24 budget. #keepspni communities-ni.gov.uk/news/departmen…