The Tenancy Support Service was established in March 2003 and is funded primarily through a Supporting People Grant.  The aims of the service are to enable people to maintain their tenancies and help them to become independent and participate in sustainable communities.

Following a service review it has been fundamentally remodelled to ensure that it is more targeted at strategic needs and makes the most effective use of the resources available.

As a result the service will now include a range of specialisms, although many of these will be delivered by a group of staff that possess the skills to deliver support to the range of clients set out below.  However some of these specialisms, including those provided to support victims/survivors of domestic violence and people living with HIV or Aids will continue to be offered by specialist support workers.
 
Two additional workers, one providing alcohol related housing support and the other offering generic support will be separately funded by the Derwent New Deal for Communities (NDC).

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The full list of client groups that the service works with is: -

 Someone who has been rehoused after a period of homelessness 
 A survivor of domestic abuse
 An ex offender, or at risk of offending
 A young person
 Living with HIV

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Download our Latest Tenancy Support News from the Tenancy Support Download Section. • A Day in the Life of a Tenancy Support Worker • Look Who We’ve been helping • Support in the Derwent Area • A Recipe to Warm You Up on Cold Winter Nights! • A Christmas Poem and Word Search • What our Service Users Think… Tenancy Support Contact Details Please contact the Tenancy Support Team on 01332 711067 for more information.  You can also call into your local housing office - each office has access to a special Tenancy Support Information Pack with details of all the agencies we work with and details of how to contact them.  You can call these agencies directly or we can help you get in touch.