{"id":918,"date":"2013-05-20T14:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2013-05-20T14:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:56:57","slug":"social-landlords-are-being-trained-to-detect-suicidal-tenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/social-landlords-are-being-trained-to-detect-suicidal-tenants.html","title":{"rendered":"Social Landlords are Being Trained to Detect Suicidal Tenants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Housing Associations and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/index.php?cmd=videos&amp;prod=lpm\">social landlords<\/a> are becoming increasingly<br \/>\nconcerned about the mental health of their tenants as the economic<br \/>\ndownturn continues. Many deprived communities are feeling the strain<br \/>\nand the &#8220;bedroom tax&#8221; is already having a significant effect on many<br \/>\ntenants. People who have lived in larger properties for many years<br \/>\nare now expected to make a greater contribution towards their rent<br \/>\nfor the privilege of having an extra room or two. In some cases, this<br \/>\nis causing huge strain, both financial and emotional, and at least<br \/>\none tenant has been reported in the media as taking their own life as<br \/>\na result.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Training in mental health issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Staff are being trained to help them identity whether a tenant is<br \/>\nshowing the symptoms of mental health problems and is at risk of<br \/>\nsuicide. Housing support workers are being sent on training courses<br \/>\nto help them manage their tenants. Some of the concern is as a result<br \/>\nof other community support workers being withdrawn from vulnerable<br \/>\ncommunities because of a lack of available funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How can social landlords help vulnerable tenants?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you work in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.lha_tenants.html#watch-demo-anchor\">social housing<\/a> sector, it is likely that one or<br \/>\nmore of your tenants are experiencing financial difficulties.<br \/>\nDesperate people sometimes do desperate things, so if you suspect<br \/>\nthat a tenant is at risk of mental health problems or could even be<br \/>\nsuicidal, try talking to them to see of they need any extra help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing Associations and social landlords are becoming increasingly concerned about the mental health of their tenants as the economic downturn continues. Many deprived communities are feeling the strain and the &#8220;bedroom tax&#8221; is already having a significant effect on many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/social-landlords-are-being-trained-to-detect-suicidal-tenants.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}