Housing, Health and Care: From Policy to Partnership
Supported housing providers are navigating a rapidly changing landscape of regulation, funding pressures and growing expectations for partnership working.
Join housing leaders from across the VODG membership to explore the future of supported housing, hear the latest policy and regulatory developments, and examine how stronger collaboration across housing, health and care can improve outcomes for people who draw on support.
This session will bring together perspectives from VODG, the National Housing Federation and sector experts to consider what lies ahead for supported housing providers and what organisations should be preparing for over the next three to five years.
Key themes include:
The future of supported housing
Policy, funding and regulatory developments
Housing, health and care partnerships
Organisational sustainability and resilience
Strategic partnerships and collaboration
Emerging opportunities and sector trends
| Time | Session | Speaker/Organisation | Purpose |
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2:00pm - 2:10pm
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Welcome and Housing Sector Update | Kerry Hamilton (VODG) | Welcome, network updates, scene-setting |
| 2:10pm - 2:20pm | VODG Policy Update: Housing Priorities and Activity | Sarah Woodhouse (VODG) | Update members on VODG's housing policy work, influencing activity and strategic priorities |
| 2:20pm - 2:40pm | The Future of Supported Housing: Policy, Funding and Regulatory Update | Vic Shannon and/or Sarah Finnegan (NHF) | Supported Housing Regulatory Oversight, Future of Supported Housing project, funding, regulation, policy priorities and implications for providers |
| 2:40pm - 3:00pm | Housing, Health and Care: From Policy to Partnership | Speaker TBC | Housing as a determinant of health, prevention, partnership working and improving outcomes |
| 3:00pm - 3:20pm | Joint Q&A | VODG + NHF + Guest Speaker | Member questions and discussion |
| 3:20pm - 3:50pm | Strategic Horizon Scan: The Future Landscape for Supported Housing Providers | Liz Zacharias (Campbell Tickell) | Sector trends, organisational sustainability, partnerships, asset strategy, development opportunities and future challenges |
| 3:50pm - 4:00pm | Summary and Next Steps | Kerry Hamilton (VODG) | Key messages, actions and close |
Speakers

Head of Policy, National Housing Federation

Policy Leader, National Housing Federation

Director of Policy and Influencing, Voluntary Organisations Disability Group

Accessibility
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Director of Housing and Assets, and Chair of the OPG, Southdown
Director of Housing and Assets, and Chair of the OPG, Southdown

Director, Campbell Tickell
Liz is a senior manager and business development professional with many years’ experience in the supported housing and social care sector as a consultant and senior executive.
Liz joined Campbell Tickell in 2015 and was promoted from Senior Consultant to Director in April 2021.
Liz has experience of working within a national care and support organisation and as a commissioner of supported housing and independent living services. She developed commissioning strategies for older people, people with mental health and learning disabilities as well as socially excluded groups and rough sleepers.
Liz holds a Masters in Human Resources and a Diploma in Fundraising from the Institute of Fundraising and previously spent five years as the lead on strategic growth for two housing organisations where she secured significant growth through public sector contracts.
Her assignments at Campbell Tickell include:
Research into Housing First services for two of the National Housing First Pilots in England, as well as research into youth homelessness, and into rough sleeping;
Project management of mergers between supported housing and care providers;
Project managing a customer insight research project for a group of seven district councils and a county council to inform the development of a new service offer and service model for older an vulnerable people;
Service Quality and market position reviews, including competitor analysis for a number of supported housing and care providers;
Supporting registered providers to review their supported housing and agency management arrangements;
Developing options appraisals for care services and single homeless/rough sleeping services;
Developing older persons housing strategies;
Leading projects developing housing needs assessments for people with complex needs, learning disabilities and autisms and/or severe mental illness, as well as housing needs assessment for single homelessness and for Domestic Abuse.
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