Housing and finances
Finance support
- Guidance: Money and legal
Information and advice on how to support your family with money and legal matters - Guidance: Money, debts, budgeting and welfare support
Managing finances such as paying bills and planning for the future can be difficult - Website: Worcester Citizens Advice (opens in a new window)
Employment and opportunities
- Website: Building Better Opportunities (BBO) (opens in a new window)
Is designed to help local people move closer to or into employment, improve lives and secure the future prosperity of Worcestershire - Website: Worcestershire Healthy Minds Employment Support Service (opens in a new window)
Mental Health Matters are working in partnership with Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust to provide employment related support to individuals who are accessing the Worcestershire Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies service, Healthy Minds (opens in a new window)
Worcester Job Centre Plus
Your local job centre can administer claims Jobseeker's Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, Employment and Support Allowance and Income Support.
Worcester Jobcentre Plus
Haswell House
Sansome Street
Worcester
Worcestershire
United Kingdom
WR1 1UZ
Telephone: 0845 6043719
Textphone: 01432 426282
Housing support
- Website: North Worcestershire Basement Project (opens in a new window)
Basement offers support to children and young people aged 16 to 25 years old who are homeless or at risk of being homeless, offering a drop in centre and floating support across communities - Website: St Basils (opens in a new window)
St Basils work with young people to help develop the skills to find and keep a home, grow their confidence, increase opportunity and reduce homelessness - Website: YMCA (opens in a new window)
The YMCA offers supported housing to children and young people, along with access to education and training to help build life skills and engage within the community - Website: Wyre Forest and South Worcestershire Nightstop (opens in a new window)
Providing safe, emergency, temporary accommodation and family mediation for homeless young people between 16 to 25 years - Website: Redditch Nightstop – Homeless Prevention and Support Services (opens in a new window)
Redditch Nightstop provides emergency accommodation, supported lodgings, support and learning opportunities for those aged between 16 and 35 - Guidance: Homelessness
- Guidance: Housing advice
- Each council in Worcestershire offers a housing options service which provides specialist housing advice. The service is accessible to anyone requiring housing advice, experiencing homelessness or threatened with homelessness
- Guidance: Accommodation options
You may want to consider living in a more supportive environment if you have a long-term, severe health or physical condition, where adapting your home is not possible and you are finding independent living difficult - Guidance: Housing options for people with a learning disability
Supported living is where a person with a disability gets the support they need to live in a home they own or are a tenant in. They can live alone or with others. The support people receive is personalised and centred on their needs. Watch the following video to meet a number of people who show us how supported living helps them live more independently