Floating Support from Independent Living Agency (ILA) helps vulnerable people in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham to remain living independently in their own homes.
This service is designed to support you through housing crises, build your skills and confidence, and empower you to take control of your life and decisions.
What can Floating Support help you with?
- Moving into new accommodation and setting up a tenancy
- Resolving problems in your home that may lead to homelessness
- Learning new skills to help you live independently
- Ensuring you are receiving all your benefits
- Finding out about local activities and opportunities
- Getting back to work
- Accessing physical and mental health services, and encouraging a healthy lifestyle
What can't Floating Support do?
- Personal care or domestic tasks (such as cooking, cleaning, DIY, or gardening)
- Counselling or befriending support
Who is eligible?
- Vulnerable people living in independent accommodation in Barking & Dagenham
- People experiencing mental health difficulties, alcohol or drug dependency, physical disability, sensory impairment, learning disability or difficulty, young people at risk or leaving care, older people, those with a history of homelessness, offenders, and people at risk of offending or domestic violence
How to access: Download the referral form from the website or contact us directly for more information.
Categories:
Day to day helping hand
Managing a long-term health condition
Services for older people
Social prescribing
Support for carers
Service access criteria:
Vulnerable people who need help with housing issues and live in independent accommodation in Barking and Dagenham
Additional needs catered for:
Hearing impairment friendly
Wheelchair accessible
Learning difficulty friendly
Physical disability friendly
housing issues, mental health, care leavers, alcohol, drug dependency,physical disability, young people at risk,older people, history of homelessness, offenders and people at risk of offending and domestic violence