Commissioned housing-related support and accommodation services

Wakefield Housing Related Support Pathways

If you require supported accommodation or support to help you keep your existing accommodation you may be referred into a Housing Related Support Pathway.

For further information on the pathways and the providers please download the Pathway and Eligibility Information.

Should you wish to be considered for a referral into one or more of the pathways please contact one of the chosen pathway provider. You can also use the Single Point of Access at the Housing Needs Service.

• Pathway and eligibility information
• Wakefield HRS Pathways referral

Local Connection Criteria

To be eligible for a Housing Related Support and Accommodation Service, the applicant must meet one of the following criteria and provide evidence:

• been resident in the district for six continuous months or more
• been resident in the district for a period of three out of the last five years
• family connections in the district that have been resident for over five years
  • a family connection is partners, parents, adult children, siblings
  • also stepparents, aunts, uncles can be considered
    • sufficient evidence must be provided of close links in the form of frequent contact, commitment, dependency
• in paid or self-employment or have a confirmed offer of employment within the district
• Care Leavers
  • where are care leaver is aged under 21 and normally lives in a different area to that of a local authority that owes them leaving care duties, and has done for at least 2 years including some time before they were 16 the young person will have a local connection
  • where a care leaver is owed leaving care duties under 23S of the Children Act 1989 they will have a local connection to the area of the children services authority that owe them a duty
• is owed a statutory homeless duty by Wakefield Council
• former asylum seekers – local connection falls to the local authority where they were last provided with section 95 accommodation (accommodation provided by the Home Office.) Accommodation provided in Accommodation Centres does not create a local connection
• special circumstances such as access to medical services that are only available in the Wakefield district

Ex-prisoners and detainees under the Mental Health Act 1983 – detention in prison or hospital does not create a local connection.