Housing Strategy Review Groups
The NHF is informed by the lead members of Housing Strategy Review Groups which hold quarterly meetings between the Council’s Strategic Housing Service and its partners to review the Council's progress in its aim for Newcastle’s housing market to meet the needs of vulnerable people.
The groups will review the housing needs of the above clients, in particular the groups will consider the following issues:
This information will be used to inform the Housing Strategy for the city and the review of the Homelessness Strategy in 2008.
If you would like further information please contact:
Children and families and Domestic Violence - Fiona Dodsworth - Date of next meeting: tbc
Group members: Val Keenan (Newcastle PCT), Lindsay Ames (Children NE), Tracy Gibson (Praxis), Lesley Storey (Newcastle City Council), Sylvia Copley (Family Intervention Project), Pauline Stamper (YHN), Bernie Hogg (Strategic Housing), Debbie Shiel (HAC), Gill Simm (HAC), Elaine Longshaw (Newcastle Womens Aid), Margi Evans (Newcastle Victim Support), Hilary Tulip (St Cuthberts Care), Elaine Smylie (Changing Trax), Olivia Madden (Panah), Sharon Dunbar (Barnardos), Fiona Dodsworth (Strategic Housing), Kath Lowthian (Children's Services), Ian Clennell (Educational Welfare Officer)
Young people - Greg Walker - Dates of meetings: 3rd December 2009, 4th February 2010, 4th March 2010, 1st April 2010
Group members: Greg Walker (Strategic Housing), Neil Munslow (Strategic Housing), Karen Adamson (YHN), Jade Cairns (YHN), Kevin Millican, Tracy McDonald (CATalyst NE), Sue Searles (YOT), George Simpson (Stepping Stones), Ed Atkin (Youth Voice), Annette Gibson (Youth Voice), Alex Simmons (Youth Voice), Gemma Shiel (Hill Court)
Offenders - Group Contact: Hayley McVicar
Dates of next meeting: 26th January 2010
Learning disabilities - Fiona Dodsworth
Dates of Meetings: tbc
Physical disabilities - Fiona Dodsworth
BME communities - Fiona Dodsworth
Dates of meetings: tbc
Group members: Fiona Dodsworth (Strategic Housing), Shayma Hague (Shelter), Julie Robertson (YHN), Monica Bishop (NERS), Kirsty Dryburgh (HAC), Jay Mahmud (YHN), Sheelagh Bright (YHN), Marie Fleming (Angel Group), Ranjana Bell
Drug and Alcohol users - Fiona Dodsworth - Dates of meetings: tbc
Group members: Fional Dodsworth (Strategic Housing), Steve Gilbert (Probation), Kevan Martin (NERAF), Isabella Graves (Lifeline), Jack Ward (Phoenix Futures), Zoe Davis (Addaction), Nikki Wheeler (Norcare), Caroline Burke (NECA), DAmien McEnroe (Police), Les Richardson (Salvation Army), Mark Sidney (Tyneside Cyrenians), Rob Bailey (Byker Bridge), Suzanne Halliwell (YHN), John Bell (Drug and Alcohol Social Work Team), Louise Lane (Supporting People), Neil Munslow (Strategic Housing), Geoff Pooley (Safe Newcastle), Helen Wilding (Safe Newcastle), Sheila Spencer (Homeless Prevention Project), Scott Robertson (Newcastle User and Carer Forum), Rachel Baillie (Supporting People)
Mental health - Brian Hedley
Private rented sector - Mark Ellis - Dates of meetings: tbc
Group members: Mark Ellis, Neil Munslow (Strategic Housing), Gerry Glyde (Tenancy Relations), Clare McMullen (Private Rented Project), David Quee (Tenancy Relations), Michael Warriner, Vivien Montgomery, (Shelter), Kim Samuelson (Environmental Services),
Drugs, Homelessness and Employability - Fiona Dodsworth - Dates of meetings: tbc
Group members: Kate Davis (Crisis), Ben Dickenson (Homeless Link), Nikki Wheeler (Norcare), Geoff Pooley (Safe Newcastle), Melanie Scott, Ollie Batchelor (Tyneside Cyrenians), Roger Mould (NCVS), Isabella Graves (Joseph Cowen Medical Centre), Fiona Dodsworth (Strategic Housing), Rebekah Wood (Progress 2 Work), Rob Bailey (Byker Bridge), Denise Wilson (Tomorrow's People), Cath Mitchell (Newcastle Futures), Les Richardson (Salvation Army), Elaine Easton (Jobcentreplus), Paul West (Jobcentreplus)
Page last updated: 10 October, 2011
