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Community and Accommodation Based Support (CABS)

What support do CABS services provide?

The support on offer relates to practical activities that help people with their day to day lives with the primary purpose of developing a person’s capacity to access and maintain independent living, for example:

  • Support to understand the responsibilities of payment of rent and service charges and engaging with support.
  • Support to understand and respond to communications received, including welfare benefit forms, to avoid and reduce rent arrears and other debt.
  • Support to access appropriate health care, in particular GP services, mental health and drug and alcohol services
  • Support to access education, training, employment or volunteering opportunities
  • Support to maintain or move onto independent accommodation.
  • It does not include support for physical or personal care.

Community Based Support Services (CBS) support people in any form of accommodation (owner occupiers, private rented, temporary) and across a continuum of need from early intervention and prevention through to intensive support for people in crisis/ high level and complex need.   County wide CBS services are currently delivered by providers:

  
Accommodation Based Support Services (ABS) provide short-term placements and are for individuals who are homeless with multiple and high-level needs. The services help develop practical activities that will help people with their day-to-day lives with the primary purpose of increasing a person’s capacity to enable them to move on and live independently.  ABS services are delivered by providers: