EAC has launched a website to help providers of housing-with-care develop a framework for kitemarking this new and exciting form of housing for older people.
The site, and an associated programme of work known as Raising the stakes : Promoting extra care housing, is designed to support the work of an Industry Forum launched in 2004 to ensure that standards were adopted to guarantee that housing-with-care delivered on its claims to residents and commissioners.
The new site provides a forum within which professionals involved can:
- Share information about their models of provision
- Share knowledge and experience of what makes for success
- Work towards a common language to describe their provision to the public
- Adopt outcome measures to demonstrate that they deliver what they promise
- Debate the value of a kitemarking system to build public confidence in housing with care