The Sheltered Housing UK Association

For the residents (mailbox@shelteredhousinguk.com)

• home
• Letters to the 'Times'
• Northampton demo
• MPs who support us
• Previous protests
• 'Help the Aged' report
• David Phipps, Witney
• 'Hossacks' Solicitors
• Official letters fm SHUK
• SHUK Committee
• Credibility
• Briefing for the press
• 'Inside Housing'
• 'The Mature Times'
• Floating support is:
• Geoffrey Cox,QC,MP MP
• Resident's letter
• Avoidable deaths
• links
• Decent Homes Stan'd
• EU.CEN 385
• Scotland page
• Wales page
• N Ireland page
• England page
• Age UK Advice
• Poets corner
• Why Sheltered Housing
• Human Rights and RSLs
• Ode to Sheltered H'ing

Warden's save the country money.A good Warden in Sheltered Housing can. and does delay or prevent residents going into care .
For every three weeks that a Warden achieves this for even a single resident, it more than saves his/her own take home pay, if set against what it would have cost to keep the resident in a care home

Best Practice

When ever Sheltered Housing and its problems are mentioned one hears the words Best Practice mooted as if this is some kind of magic formula . It is not, best practice is a way for people whose job it is to administer to duck and dive making a decision.

For both the resident and the landlord the term best practice is non-enforcable and it leaves the resident with no legal powers to redress shortcomings on the part of the housing providers.
New Contracts

Some housing providers are seeking a way to bypass their previous responsibilities by offering their residents new contracts. Beware new contracts, despite honeyed words from the housing provider, are most unlikely to benefit the resident. Whatever you do, do not sign a new contract without first having spoken to a solicitor. This site can recommend a solicitor who will advise you at no cost . Contact us.

What the Dutch Say About Sheltered Housing

Affordable decent and suitable non-institutional housing with service provision play a vital role in the lives of elderly people. Compared with independent living in the community sheltered accommodations provide added value. Sheltered housing should, therefore, be an integral part of

long-term care policy.

Rentrestructuring and Target rents ended the pooling of rents, whereas in the past residents in Sheltered Housing lived in a sort of co-operative . This was ended and each scheme must in future be self funding. However. many Sheltered schemes were built by size acording to geographical demand and were never inteded to be fully self supporting. This was not taken into account when rent pooling was ended and has resulted in crippling service charges to the residents of smaller units.

Furthermore, depooling mean't that the service charges which in many cases were paid integral of the rent are now extracted and charged over and above rent. Fair enough one imagines, then the rent must go down as the service charges are adjusted . No so say the housing providers we are going to keep what you were paying before and simply charge you extra .

If that seems like sharp practice to you, then it does not to the TSA who are supposed to be the protectors of tenants in social housing . Nor, too does it bother the Housing Ombudsman who will murmer that they are not empowered to deal with service charges. They are empowered to deal with malpractice in the rents however, but from personal experience they will not act. Thus, nobody apparently speaks for the residents


E-mail us at:-

Mailbox@shelteredhousinguk.com
tweet on twitter.com/shukassociation
Fax us 01245 224166

This site is archived by the British Library

STOP PRESS.
THERE WAS A TWO PAGE ARTICLE
IN THE 'YOURS ' MAGAZINE ON TUESDAY
24TH AUGUST

Charity status has been applied for:

We are in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England






THE SHELTERED HOUSING UK ASSOCIATION's
DEMO AND HANDING IN OF THE NATIONAL PETITION
DECEMBER 7TH, 2009
I
Left: JillI Monkton. age 92, up from Devon.
Right: The piper and drummer who led the march
I
Left: MPs Adrian Sanders (Lib Dem) and Andrew Drew (lab co-op)
Right: MP, Geoffrey Cox QC

I
Left: Acronym does not rule o k ?
Right
Maria Hobbs up from Somerset A token of appreciation was presented
to her for the 5000 signatures she collected in Somerset.
I

Left: Chris Took, Lid Dem candidate for Ashford, and Kelly-Marie who has given us a lot of help from there.
Right: Joe Oldman Senior Policy Officer, Age UK

Back row left to right: Joseph Oldman, Senior Policy Officer, Age UK. Anne Jepson. Secretary, The Sheltered Housing
UK Association. Vernon Yarker, Chairman The Sheltered Housing UK Association.
Geoffrey Cox QC, MP. Conservative Party. On the wheel chairs. Mrs Sarah Kingston,up from Devon. Mrs Jill Monkton, up from Devon,
Mrs Maria Hobbs, up from Somerset

When a picture says a thousand words

Sensitive logs please click on them to be taken to the websites below







LATEST NEWS LETTER NOW AVAILABLE CLICK ON WHERE
THE CANNON BALL LANDS
Shuk News Letter

Sheltered Housing UK com