Concierge Service for Supported Housing

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Concierge Service for Supported Housing

Professional, trained concierge teams who create a safe, welcoming, and well-managed environment for residents — acting as the visible, trusted presence at the heart of your building.

Overview

The trusted, visible presence at the heart of your building

The concierge is often the first and most frequent point of contact for residents in supported housing. Done well, it builds trust, deters anti-social behaviour, supports resident wellbeing, and keeps your building safe. Done poorly, it undermines the entire therapeutic environment your service works to create. AGS provides concierge professionals — not security guards. This is a fundamental distinction that shapes everything from how our staff present themselves to how they interact with residents.

Our concierge teams wear smart casual attire, including AGS and client-branded polo shirts, rather than security-style uniforms. This deliberate choice signals approachability and professionalism without the institutional feel that can alienate residents with complex trauma histories. Combine this with higher manager-to-staff ratios than conventional security providers, and you have a service that is genuinely responsive, supervised, and accountable — not a low-cost deployment with minimal oversight.

Each AGS concierge placement includes comprehensive induction into your service's values, resident profiles, and house rules. Staff are trained specifically for supported housing — not hotels, not offices, not retail — and understand trauma-informed practice, safeguarding reporting obligations, and how to de-escalate situations before they become incidents. Incident reports, visitor logs, and shift handovers are completed consistently and accurately.

What's included

Included as standard

  • Concierge professionals, not security guards — a fundamental service distinction
  • Smart casual presentation — AGS and client-branded polo shirts, not security-style uniforms
  • Enhanced DBS checks for all staff, including barred-list checks where the role is eligible
  • Trained in trauma-informed, person-centred approaches
  • Safeguarding and adult protection procedures
  • Visitor management and access control
  • Conflict de-escalation and assertiveness training
  • Incident reporting and contemporaneous note-taking
Who we support

Built for the services you run

Our concierge service across different supported housing and homelessness settings.

Young people's services

A consistent, approachable adult at the front door of foyers and young people's schemes — managing visitors, supporting house rules and spotting safeguarding concerns, including signs of exploitation, early.

Women-only services

Female concierge staff for refuges and women-only accommodation, controlling access and applying your visitor policy so residents feel safe and unwanted visitors are kept out.

Hostels and emergency accommodation

Front-of-house teams for hostels, assessment centres and emergency accommodation for people who have been sleeping rough, including the emergency hotels we staffed in London during COVID-19.

Prison leavers and young offenders

Access control, visitor logs and curfew sign-in records for accommodation housing people on licence or under youth justice supervision, shared with probation and your support team as agreed.

Complex needs and multiple disadvantage

High-support hostels for people with mental ill health, substance misuse or multiple disadvantage, where a psychologically informed, de-escalating approach keeps the building calm.

FAQs

Concierge Service questions

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0800 088 4955

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Never be left without cover.

Available 24/7, 365 days

One call. Always covered.

  • Enhanced DBS
  • Dedicated team
  • 20 years

No commitment · Free initial consultation