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Strategic alignment

Find out how our HAP helps to deliver some of our key priorities and objectives.

There are several key Council strategies and plans with which the Housing Assistance Policy will help deliver some of their key priorities and objectives.

Community and Corporate Plan 2019 - 2023

The Community and Corporate Plan sets out Torbay’s priorities for the area to ensure that services being provided will meet the varied needs of the residents living in Torbay.

Housing Strategy 2023 - 2030

The Housing Strategy aims to deliver these 3 priorities:

  1. improve housing supply
  2. improve housing quality
  3. improve housing support

This policy will contribute to delivering across all three of these priorities and will support the strategy’s cross-cutting principles:

  • put our customers first - developing a person-centered approach when finding adaptation solutions for customers
  • tackle climate change - including recycling adaptations and working with contractors who are working in a sustainable way
  • work in partnership - improve the strategic and operational integration of the disabled facilities grant service within the Better Care Fund Plan

Market Position Statement

The local Market Position Statement summarises supply and demand in the local care provider market and forms the basis for strategic commissioning decisions. The vision is to support people to stay as well and as independent as possible, for as long as possible and to manage their health and well-being in their own homes wherever possible.
  
The Housing Assistance Policy will support the delivery of the overarching priorities within the document which are:

  • enabling more people to be healthy and stay healthy
  • enhancing self-care and community resilience
  • integrate and improve community services and care in people’s homes
  • deliver modern, safe, and sustainable services

Better Care Fund (BCF)

The (BCF) programme is a pooled health and social care budget which significantly increased disabled facilities grant allocation to Housing Authorities. In providing the additional disabled facilities grant funding the government has encouraged a more integrated approach to improve outcomes across health, social care and housing using a more joined-up approach to working. The policy will introduce a wider range of discretionary assistance designed to meet the needs of disabled, older, and vulnerable local residents and support the delivery of the BCF priorities.