Floating Support: Aims
Floating Support is a flexible service which helps vulnerable people to maintain their tenancy and to live happily and independently in the community.
It is there to help prevent people becoming homeless or having to move to a residential setting or institutional care.
What can Floating Support provide?
Floating Support is about helping people to live their lives on a daily basis by providing support that can include:
• Advice and assistance with setting up home on their own, including tenancy arrangements
• Help with the safe use of domestic equipment
• Managing finances and benefits
• Advice on how to keep and maintain their home
• Development of personal skills
• Liaising with other agencies and services
• Support with social & daily living skills and the prevention of isolation
What it does not provide?
Floating Support is not about “hands on” care. If people need that type of support then it is provided in other ways. Floating Support is not about helping people with:
• Physical assistance - washing, bathing, shaving, toileting, feeding, personal care
• Therapeutic programmes e.g. specialist counselling such as bereavement, abuse, relationships, drug and alcohol misuse
• Issuing and enforcing occupancy agreements
• Organising and repair of properties or contents where this is a landlord issue
• Childcare
• Supervision of court orders and Probation programmes
• Participating in Drug Treatment And Testing Orders
• Statutory after-care services
Who is eligible for Floating Support?
To be eligible you must be aged over 18 and not covered by the Children’s Act (Leaving Care). You must also be vulnerable in clearly identifiable ways, for example having:
• Been homeless or a rough sleeper
• A history of offending or being at risk of offending
• Mental health problems
• Learning disabilities
• At risk of domestic violence
• Teenage pregnancy
• Difficulty coping or being at risk
• Drug and alcohol problems
We also see as vulnerable anyone who meets any two of the following:
• Low level health status
• Unemployed
• Homeless or inadequately housed
• English not their first language
• Low income
This service is open to everyone, you do not need to be a tenant of Apex Housing to avail of the Floating Support Service.
To Download a referral form please Click Here.
Floating Support: Aims
Floating Support is a flexible service which helps vulnerable people to maintain their tenancy and to live happily and independently in the community.
It is there to help prevent people becoming homeless or having to move to a residential setting or institutional care.
What can Floating Support provide?
Floating Support is about helping people to live their lives on a daily basis by providing support that can include:
• Advice and assistance with setting up home on their own, including tenancy arrangements
• Help with the safe use of domestic equipment
• Managing finances and benefits
• Advice on how to keep and maintain their home
• Development of personal skills
• Liaising with other agencies and services
• Support with social & daily living skills and the prevention of isolation
What it does not provide?
Floating Support is not about “hands on” care. If people need that type of support then it is provided in other ways. Floating Support is not about helping people with:
• Physical assistance - washing, bathing, shaving, toileting, feeding, personal care
• Therapeutic programmes e.g. specialist counselling such as bereavement, abuse, relationships, drug and alcohol misuse
• Issuing and enforcing occupancy agreements
• Organising and repair of properties or contents where this is a landlord issue
• Childcare
• Supervision of court orders and Probation programmes
• Participating in Drug Treatment And Testing Orders
• Statutory after-care services
Who is eligible for Floating Support?
To be eligible you must be aged over 18 and not covered by the Children’s Act (Leaving Care). You must also be vulnerable in clearly identifiable ways, for example having:
• Been homeless or a rough sleeper
• A history of offending or being at risk of offending
• Mental health problems
• Learning disabilities
• At risk of domestic violence
• Teenage pregnancy
• Difficulty coping or being at risk
• Drug and alcohol problems
We also see as vulnerable anyone who meets any two of the following:
• Low level health status
• Unemployed
• Homeless or inadequately housed
• English not their first language
• Low income
This service is open to everyone, you do not need to be a tenant of Apex Housing to avail of the Floating Support Service.
To Download a referral form please Click Here.