Sheltered housing tenants, and their supporters, from Barnet, Hammersmith and Hackney, delivered a petition of 350 signatures to Number 10 on the 18th May, urging the government to stop plans to replace their resident scheme managers with a floating support service. The event was organised by David Young, chair of the Kingsley Court strategy committee in Barnet. Councillors in the borough will decide next month whether to back proposals to remove the scheme's managers. Barnet residents continued the protest outside the ocuncil's town hall the following evening. (Source Inside Housing 22/05/09)

Help the Aged research, "Nobody's Listening,'(Jan 2009), into the state of the nation's sheltered accomodation, found that over the next three years a third of sheltered housing schemes (31 per cent) will lose their on-site scheme managers and have them replaced with a floating service. The report is available at: