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Housing and regeneration group LHA-ASRA has promoted Patrick Taylor to Director of Support Services.

Patrick was previously Managing Director of charity Family First, which joined the LHA-ASRA group in 2006. His promotion is part of the restructuring of the Group’s senior management team to enhance services to customers.

The LHA-ASRA Group was formed when Leicester Housing Association and ASRA Greater London Housing Association came together.

In his new role, Patrick will be responsible for the Group’s support services in the east midlands, managing both Family First and LHA Support Services.

Nottingham-based Family First offers mental health support for minority ethnic groups, through a project called Young Diverse Minds.

It also runs the Family First Day Nursery in Chilwell, teenage parent accommodation and a day centre for people with mental health problems called the Amity Centre.

Patrick joined Family First in 1992 as manager of its recycling services.

LHA Support Services provides individualised care, support and housing services, to enable people of all ages and with a range of needs, to live as independently as possible.

The organisation has more than 30 years’ experience in the care and support sector and manages 99 schemes, providing almost 1,000 bed spaces, across the east midlands.  Accommodation includes supported housing, housing for older people, care homes and non-residential care and support.

LHA Support Services operates its own schemes as well as working in partnership with other specialist agencies, which provide the support and care themselves. 

Patrick said: “The LHA-ASRA Group is committed to improving and expanding the care and support our wide range of services offer to people across the east midlands. This new role will enable us to better co-ordinate these services and I am looking forward to the challenges and opportunities it presents.”

Atul Patel, Group CEO of LHA-ASRA, said: “Care and support has always been a key part of LHA-ASRA’s business and I am sure that under Patrick’s direction, support services will continue to go from strength to strength.”