Right time, right place? An evaluation of the Individual Budget approach to tackling rough sleeping in Wales

Brown, P

Abstract

In 2011 the Welsh Local Authority Homelessness
Network sought to explore new and innovative
solutions to tackling long-term homelessness. The
Network worked with a number of local authorities
to help fund fresh approaches to working with
entrenched rough sleepers. Five pilot areas were
provided funding: 1. Cardiff; 2. Newport; 3. Swansea; 4. Bridgend; 5. Ynys Mon & Gwynedd. This study was commissioned by the Welsh Local
Authority Homelessness Network in partnership with
the Welsh Assembly Government to evaluate these
pilots. The evaluation for the pilots was undertaken by
bringing together a range of information, both
secondary and primary, and sharing these emerging
findings with practitioners within learning and sharing
workshops over the course of the evaluation. There were three aspects
to the methodology: the collation and review of available information; qualitative interviews with a total of 18 service
providers over three separate time periods of the
pilots (beginning, middle and end); qualitative interviews with a total of 17 recipients
of the Individual Budgets at the outset of the
pilots. 11 of these were re-interviewed at the end
of the pilots to determine progress and impacts
experienced.

Citation

Brown, P. (2013). Right time, right place? An evaluation of the Individual Budget approach to tackling rough sleeping in Wales

• Report Type: Project Report
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Jul 10, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Publisher URL: http://www.salford.ac.uk/sustainable-housing-and-urban-studies-unit/projects/right-time,-right-place-an-evaluation-of-the-individual-budget-approach-to-tackling-rough-sleeping-in-wales