Exiting temporary accommodation
and direct support
Priorities for 2015/16
We’ll:
This year we took the difficult decision
to stop providing direct support services
ourselves, and to wind down providing
temporary accommodation through the
private rental market. While CASA, our
supported housing arm, and Avenue, our
temporary lettings agency, both provided
excellent services, the market had
become incredibly tough and available
funding had reduced. We continue to
provide supported housing but have
transferred the support service to our
partners from 2015/16.
C
omplete the final year of the WoW
programme and identify £4.44m
recurring savings
Begin to deliver a continuous
improvement programme to keep
generating efficiency savings
Deliver more technology to enable
residents to access more services
online
Assess business streams to continue
to improve our financial capacity to
build more homes.
Achievements in 2014/15
We saved £1.75m in recurring operational
costs and £0.7m new procurement
savings against a total target of £2.3m.
How we spend every pound
Staff &
related costs
18p
Achievements included:
T
endered new long term contract for
kitchens and bathrooms – reduced
costs by £450k per annum
Tendered for a new lone working
solution – saved £16k per annum
Tendered to put a formal contract in
place to secure void properties. We
save £160k per annum
Significantly increased the overall
social impact value of our community
development programme to £24m
double that of 2013/14.
Office &
management
4p
Depreciation
9p
Services
7p
Future new
homes
17p
Maintenance
22p
Net interest
costs
17p
Landlord
payments/other costs
6p
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