B&NES: Adults Homelessness Prevention: Abstinence-Based Recovery Accommodation (Barton Buildings)

Barton Buildings provides supported housing (shared or self-contained) for individuals in recovery from substance misuse, committed to living in abstinence-based accommodation. The service emphasises recovery, emotional wellbeing, and tenancy stability. These scheme form a critical part of the wider homelessness and substance-misuse pathway, preventing acute escalation, safeguarding failures and rough sleeping, and reducing demand on NHS, housing and criminal justice services.