Transcript AT HOME An Audit Tool for Housing and Housing related support for Older people from Minority Ethnic communities Kalyani Gandhi: Chair, HOPDEV BME Working Group Philip Brown:

AT HOME
An Audit Tool for Housing and
Housing related support for
Older people from Minority
Ethnic communities
Kalyani Gandhi: Chair, HOPDEV BME Working
Group
Philip Brown: University of Salford
What is AT HOME?
Promote real changes in translating
policy into practice
 First tool of its kind keeping needs and
aspirations of BME older people central
to planning services
 Means to assess, identify and provide
lasting solutions.
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Why AT HOME ?
HOPDEV and BME working group
 National and local policy framework
 Inequality in housing and support to
BME older people
 Barriers and challenges to BME service
development
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Benefits of using AT HOME
Improvements in identifying local needs
and aspirations
 Improve/direct strategies and policies in
service development and
implementation
 Vehicle for good practice/innovation
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Benefits of AT HOME
Means to deliver appropriate services
 Encourage partnerships: local and
national
 Enhance inspection mechanisms
 Enhance monitoring and evaluation
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Making a difference
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‘AT HOME will help people in charge of
housing and us to work together so that
we can have better housing’
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‘AT HOME will help us get the help we
need to live the lives we want’
- BME older people participating in the
pilot of AT HOME
Leading principles
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Raising awareness
Developing good practice
Monitoring practice
Continuous improvement
Wide audience
Development of the audit tool
 Existing
tool review
 Consultation around content and
format
 Continuous refinement
 Product testing
Development of the audit tool
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Consultations indicated a need for:
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Flexibility
Complementary practice
Engagement with the communities
An aid to assist in a coherent process of
change
AT HOME
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A modular audit/self assessment tool
covering:
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BME older peoples experiences and perspectives
Improving understanding of communities
Commissioning issues
Information provision and access to services
Monitoring issues
Linkages between services and agencies
AT HOME
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Action planning design
Allows for consideration of action needed
Dissemination of models of ‘good practice’
Assists with HC, AC & SP commitments
Encourages older people, providers and
commissioners to communicate
Flexible format that can be developed
Format of AT HOME
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CD-Rom containing:
– Two options of completing AT HOME
 To
print the full tool
 To complete interactively
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Leaflet for older people about the tool
Looking forward…
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Starting point – not an end point
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Encourage joint working (social care,
housing and health)
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Helps embrace and respond to multiple
inequalities