Meeting the housing needs of the armed forces community in Tameside

Wilding, MA

Abstract

The project aimed to review the extent to which the housing needs of the armed forces community in Tameside are being met and to make recommendations for potential improvements. This required collating information about the ways in which organisations delivering housing services currently work: what is known about the circumstances of ex-armed forces personnel by
staff in organisations operating locally; what do they offer to the armed forces community; what demands are placed on organisations; and what support service providers feel they need to best meet extant needs. The review therefore sought to understand the following questions:

- What level of demand is there for housing and housing related support among the armed forces community in Tameside, and how is demand being recorded?
- What are organisations operating locally doing to meet demand?
- What recommendations can be made to improve systems and ways of working?


A range of stakeholders were liaised with throughout
the course of the review in order to inform them about
the evaluation, secure commitment to the work, and
identify and access evidence and data. Information on the
numbers of the armed forces community supported was
sought in order to build a picture of the types of demands
made. Twenty-eight separate stakeholder organisations
were asked to provide data and/or participate in a
telephone interview.In total, 16 of the organisations approached agreed to participate through telephone interviews.

Citation

Wilding, M. (2017). Meeting the housing needs of the armed forces community in Tameside

• Report Type: Project Report
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jul 27, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 27, 2017
• Related Public URLs: http://www.salford.ac.uk/research/care/research-groups/shusu
• Additional Information: Funders : Tameside MBC