Delivering Social Inclusion - The role housing associations can play in PSA 16

Housing associations and providers of housing related support are vital partners in delivering social inclusion.
 
This guide highlights the role housing associations and support providers can play in delivering PSA 16. It looks at some of the opportunities and approaches that housing associations and local authorities have taken together to improve outcomes for groups experiencing exclusion.
 
PSA 16 is one of the Government’s key targets for inclusion. It aims to ensure some of the most socially excluded adults get the opportunity to get back on the path to a more successful life by increasing the proportion in settled accommodation and in employment, education and training. Housing associations and their partners can use PSA 16 to:

• Focus effort and attention by helping put a spotlight on housing and employment outcomes for socially excluded adults
• Encourage prevention and early intervention, by focusing on transition points when individuals can be helped to avoid long-term exclusion 
• Improve joint working: acting as a lever to get new or existing partners round a table

This guide explains some of the opportunities PSA 16 offers, and the practical issues involved in delivering homes and jobs for adults at risk of social exclusion. It gives examples of how housing associations and support providers help to deliver settled accommodation to socially excluded groups.

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