The Teenage Supported Housing Pilot, one of the nine Child Poverty pilots, involved seven local authorities in a project that provided assistance to teenage parents, focusing on 16 and 17 year olds or those not living with parents. In its final evaluation, the researchers for the Department for Education stressed the importance of flexible delivery and the role played by frontline staff. The Whitehall II study continues to offer further insights. One of the latest relates to the effect of housing on the mental health of older people. Researchers looked at data from the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) for the cohort, which was administered six times as part of the Whitehall II study of British civil servants from 1989-2005. This study supports the view that it is housing quality and financial security, rather than home ownership, that impact on the mental health of older people. The Housing Learning And Improvement Network has published a series of briefing papers that consider the implications for the housing sector of the government's health and social care agenda.
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