Housing and Adult Social Services

Directorate Structure

There are six departments within Housing and Adult Social Services:

• HASS Management Board
• Adult Social Care
• Housing Needs and Strategy
• Community Services (Joint Post with PCT)
• Strategy and Commissioning (Joint Post with PCT)
• Mental Health

Housing

The Housing department provides the following services:

Housing Needs and Strategy – aiming to meet the housing needs of the people of Islington by:

• developing and implementing an effective housing strategy
• preventing homelessness where ever possible
• ensuring that the impact of unavoidable homelessness is minimised
• maximising choice in where people live
• ensuring housing conditions in the private sector are improved

Special Projects – responsible for the identification and delivery of new initiatives concerned with maintaining the long-term future of the housing stock.

To download Housing Publications, click on the link on the left.

Adult Social Services

Adult Social Services provides a huge variety of community care services and support for:

• older people
• disabled people and their families
• people with health problems
• people who are returning home after a stay in hospital
• HIV and AIDS
  
  

Adult Social services help people with mental health problems to live independently or in residential care. The community care centres provide a range of services to vulnerable adult residents of the borough so that they can live independently.

Contact

Corporate Director of Housing and Adult Services
Sean McLaughlin
7 Newington Barrow Way
London N7 7EP
Email: sean.mclaughlin@islington.gov.uk