Sitra launched "Navigating the Maze: A guide on engaging with and influencing local governance and commissioning structures" at our conference on Localism that took place in London on 13 July.

This guide is primarily for providers to support them in understanding local decision making structures and navigate where best to engage with these structures. Such engagement should then enable effective influencing of decision making on the commissioning and governance of housing related support services.

Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, delivered the Coalition Government’s first Budget on Tuesday 22 June. The Budget set out a five year plan to rebuild the British economy.

Take a closer look at the latest event in our series of essential conferences taking place this autumn and winter. Each event highlights the key issues which are shaping the face of the housing with support and care sector today and the series culminates with our annual policy conference on February.

Special offer: Book any conference place before 20 August and get your second booking half price when you quote reference AUT10/11.

Regional roundtable events 2010 on the future delivery of housing support

Sitra were commissioned by the CLG to run a series of Regional roundtable events in early 2010. The sessions were designed to have a dual purpose, both for information sharing and also for gaining information on national trends which would then be used to inform further support through the transition package. Between 23 February and 30 March a total of 13 events took place, bringing together just under 400 people. The representation at the events was a mix of providers and commissioners and all events followed the same format.

Download regional round up report (pdf)

Starting from August, we will be running a special series of events at our London headquarters. These include specialist training courses for frontline workers, courses for clients on peer assessment and client engagement and a half day seminar on mental health recovery.

Take a look at our new training guide for September 2010 to March 2011

Featuring new and revised courses on client engagement, personalisation, marketing your service, effective local engagement and many other essential courses.

Our streamed courses have been designed to help practitioners to achieve competency across core areas of housing related support, relevant to specific levels of experience or roles.

The QAF Refresh was released in April, 2009. Sitra were fundamental in the drafting, piloting and reviewing of the refreshed QAF.

Our new page dedicated to the QAF Refresh has more information including an explanation of the new format, links to the QAF documents on SPKweb and FAQs.