Information for referrers and clients   

Funding required/charges from October 2010

                                                    Per Day       Per Week

Rent:                                             £14.70         £102.90

Food and household items:                £5.30            £37.10 

Services:                                        £1.00             £7.00

Total                                £21.00      £147.00

We expect clients to be entitled to Housing Benefit and to ESA or Incapacity Benefit which will normally cover the above costs.  If clients are not entitled to benefits they will need to find private funding or other statutory funding to cover these costs.

Each client also needs some money for personal spending each week, which again normally comes out of their Incapacity Benefit/Income Support or Employment Support Allowance.

Assessments and Allocation of Beds

  • If you have a client in mind please make contact with us and make sure you are sent or e-mailed all the relevant information to explain to your client what we are offering. In urgent cases we can take all the referral information over the phone. 
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  • You can also download all the necessary forms and info from our website: www.inishfree.org.uk
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  • If we have a vacancy, please ask your client to ring us as soon as possible, to fill out the application form or do it with them, and to send it to us together with your referral form.
  • Please include your risk assessment and care plan/support plan to give us an idea of the vulnerability of your client. If you cannot include these, please let us know why.
  • We will offer your client an assessment as soon as we have received all the necessary information.
  • An assessment is usually not available until clients are clean and sober.
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  • We will arrange a visit if clients are accompanied by a worker if they are still using.
  • The client will meet with the support co-ordinator and a full assessment will be done. A current trainee might be part of the assessment if appropriate.                      
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  • If the outcome is positive, the client may be invited to stay if all  paperwork has been sorted.
  • If we do not have a bed available, we will advise of other options and put your client on a waiting list.
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  • If it is not possible to make a decision immediately after the assessment we will let you and your client know about the outcome within the next 24 hours.
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  • If we decide not to offer your client a bed we will let them know the reasons for this. We will let you know about the outcome of the assessment. We will inform them of their right to appeal against our decision.
  • We cannot guarantee beds at any time and will not reserve a bed for your client, as they might always change their mind at the last minute. If we can make an exception to this rule we will let you know.

Eligibility

You need to be:

  • between 18 and 65 years of age (male of female)
  • in need of safe accommodation and not claiming housing benefit elsewhere
  • i need of the support offered at Inishfree
  • in need of structured daily activities
  • suffering from addiction
  • fully detoxed
  • testing clean and sober on admission (drug tested on arrival)
  • committed to living life without drugs and alcohol
  • keen to change your lifestyle

Waiting List

If there are no beds available we will put an assessed client on the waiting list or refer them to another project and tell them to ring in at agreed intervals to support them until a bed becomes available. If there is more than one person on the waiting list the first vacancy will be allocated to the person who is the most vulnerable and meets the above criteria best.