This work covers three groups of people: people with severe mental illness, people with a learning disability and people with autism.

Campbell Tickell are gathering a wide range of data from local authorities and the NHS, undertaking stakeholder interviews and are hoping to do some service user engagement to understand what housing people need and what their aspirations for housing are in the future.

The eligibility criteria for these groups are people in receipt of a care package from social care, and/or funded by a continuing healthcare package by the NHS (known as a section 117 package).

Who they'd like to connect with

Campbell Tickell would like to connect with groups of people who fit the eligibility criteria, and any family/carer groups.

What they're hoping to do

Campbell Tickell would like to send out a fairly brief questionnaire asking about people's housing needs and their wishes - ideally, what sort of housing people would like to live in, and what their priorities are. They'd also like to do some remote focus group work to sit alongside the questionnaires. They did some of these over Zoom in South Yorkshire where they have just completed a similar piece of work and this worked well.

How to participate

If you/your group would like a questionnaire or to participate in a 20-30 minute focus group, please email Irmani at irmani.smallwood@campbelltickell.com. The questionnaires and focus groups will go out/happen in January or February.

What happens to people's views?

Campbell Tickell will include all the feedback into their report back to West Yorkshire ICB, which will set out what housing is required in the next 5 - 7 years in West Yorkshire, and what people's requirements and preferences are. The local authorities and West Yorkshire ICB will then build this into their planning for future housing developments and commissioning.