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SUMMARY
Recommendations CHAPTER 1: POLICY
BACKGROUND AND THE OBJECTIVES OF THE
EVALUATION
Introduction
Background
A short history of the programme
Eliminating the need to sleep
rough
The integration of RSI within
strategic responses to all forms of
homelessness
Findings of the interim evaluation
The Aims and objectives of this
evaluation
Methods
A critical assessment of research
and monitoring information on rough
sleeping in Scotland
The national telephone survey
Eight in-depth case studies
Structure of the
report CHAPTER 2: A
CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF RESEARCH AND
MONITORING INFORMATION ON ROUGH
SLEEPING
Introduction
Existing research on people sleeping
rough
A review of studies of people
sleeping rough
A critical assessment of the
existing research base
Existing statistical measures of
rough sleeping and service delivery in
scotland
The George street Research
monitoring of the target to end the need to
sleep rough in Scotland by 2003
Summary of methodology
Summary of findings of the George
Street Research Monitoring
The GSR research: a critical
assessment
National rough sleeping initiative
core data collected by Glasgow Homelessness
Network
Summary of methodology
Summary of findings
The GHN Monitoring: a critical
assessment
HL1 data on rough sleeping
Summary of methodology
Summary of findings
HL1: a critical assessment
Gaps in information CHAPTER 3: THE
IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE RSI
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES
AND NATIONAL LEVEL AGENCIES
Introduction
Perspectives on the Development and
objectives of the RSI
The development of the programme
The objectives of the programme
The use of RSI funding
The uses to which RSI funds were
put
Views on the effectiveness of
RSI
New and expanded service provision
Joint Working and Co-ordination
Standards and performance
Raising awareness and promoting
cultural change
Wider Cultural and Policy Change
The Impact of RSI on Rough
Sleeping
The overall impact
Difficulties in reaching some
groups of people sleeping rough
Contextual factors and other
issues adversely affecting rough sleeping
levels in some areas
The future of RSI CHAPTER 4: RSI FROM
THE PERSPECTIVE OF SERVICE PROVIDERS
Introduction
The services that participated in
the fieldwork
Service providers' perceptions of
the needs of people sleeping rough
The needs of people sleeping rough
Service effectiveness: the views of
service providers
The factors influencing success
The overall success of services
The effectiveness of rsi: the views
of service providers
The future of RSI CHAPTER 5: SERVICE
USERS
Introduction
Service effectiveness
Services in receipt of RSI funding
Changes
Unmet needs and gaps in services
Overall findings CHAPTER 6:
CONCLUSIONS
Introduction
RSI effectiveness and the need to
sleep rough in Scotland
The effectiveness of RSI
The limitations of RSI
Ending the need to sleep rough
The mainstreaming of RSI services
Monitoring information on rough
sleeping and RSI services
The GSR Monitoring of the need to
sleep rough
GHN National Rough Sleeping
Initiative Core Data
Progress since the interim
evaluation
The future of RSI
Overall conclusions
Recommendations
The future of the programme
The monitoring of rough sleeping
and rough sleeper services REFERENCES APPENDIX ONE:
LIST OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES THAT
PARTICIPATED IN THE FIELDWORK APPENDIX TWO:
TOPIC GUIDE FOR THE TELEPHONE AND FACE
TO FACE INTERVIEWS WITH NATIONAL LEVEL
AND LOCAL AUTHORITY RESPONDENTS APPENDIX THREE:
TOPIC GUIDE FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS APPENDIX FOUR:
TOPIC GUIDE FOR SERVICE USERS List of tables and figuresFigure 2.1:
Total number of individuals sleeping rough
reported by projects participating in the
GSR monitoring between May 2001 and October
2003
Figure 2.2:
Reported experience of sleeping rough
reported by respondents to the GSR
monitoring during October 2003
Figure 2.3:
Total number of new service users reported
by services to GHN monitoring over the
period July 2000 to March 2004
Figure 2.4:
Total number of new service users with any
history of sleeping rough reported by
services to GHN monitoring
Figure 2.5:
Total number of new service users currently
sleeping rough reported by services to GHN
monitoring over the period July 2000 to
March 2004
Figure 2.6:
Total number of service users reported by
services participating in the GHN
monitoring by local authority area from 1st
July 2000 to 31st March 2004
Figure 2.7:
Total number of service users coming from
outside the local authority area where
projects were located
Figure 2.8:
Percentage of service users coming from
outside the local authority area where
projects were located
Figure 2.9:
Where people who had last lived outside
Edinburgh had come from (by percentage of
those who had lived outside Edinburgh)
Figure 2.10:
Percentage of individuals who reported any
history of sleeping rough by LA area
Figure 2.11:
Total reported project activity by local
authority
Figure 2.12:
Percentage of service users / clients
reporting selected characteristics by
whether their case was open or closed
Figure 2.13:
Positive outcomes recorded by projects
Table 2.1
Households with any experience of rough
sleeping in the last three months by
household type
Figure 2.14
Total households reporting recent
experience of sleeping rough by month
Figure 2.15:
Total households reporting recent
experience of sleeping rough by local
authority area AcknowledgementsThe Centre for Housing
Policy would like to thank all those
interviewees who made their time available
to participate in the research. We are
particularly grateful to those agencies
providing services to people sleeping rough
which made themselves available as case
studies for the research and to the people
using those services who gave up their time
to take part in focus groups. The research
team would also like to give special thanks
to Glasgow Homeless Network for making
their monitoring dataset available for the
purposes of this evaluation. Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Nicholas Pleace
Mark Bevan |