Key Worker living is a new housing initiative that is designed to make home ownership affordable. The scheme assists certain groups of Key Workers to help buy or rent a home.
If you are helping to improve the education, health and safety of our communities you can benefit from help to buy your first home or to move into a family home.
Which occupations qualify as KeyWorkers? The government has identified groups in the health, education
and community safety sectors as being key workers.
Essentially, the definition of a key worker is that the individual is:
- Employed by the public sector
- In a frontline role delivering an essential public service
- In a sector where there are serious recruitment and retention problems
The actual occupations are:
- Nurses and other NHS staff
- Teachers in schools and in further education and sixth form colleges
- Police officers and some civilian staff
- Prison service and probation service staff
- Social workers, educational psychologists
- Planners
- Occupational therapists and (from May 2004) speech and language therapists
- Whole-time junior fire officers and retained fire fighters
The Following Help Is Available: - Key Worker Open Market HomeBuy
An 'Equity loan' to help key workers buy a home on the open market or a new property built by a registered social landlord - Key Worker New Build Homebuy
You buy part and rent part of newly-built properties (you buy at least 25% of the home and pay a reduced rent on the remaining share) - 'Intermediate renting' where the rent is set at a level between that charged by social and private landlords
Each region will assess local needs and target homes available via key worker purchase schemes according to that assessment, so not every occupation will benefit in every area.
Key Workers - Norfolk and Suffolk
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First Step may be able to give you the help you need to buy or rent
a home to keep you in the job you have trained for.
Howards Affordable Homes East Anglia UK T: 0845 38 90 456
