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Final Evaluation of the Rough Sleepers Initiative

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FINAL EVALUATION OF THE ROUGH SLEEPERS INITIATIVE

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1 A small amount of residual funding was held back to pay for delayed projects or projects in areas which had not made successful bids

2 Through the cooperation and support of GHN, access to the full GHN monitoring dataset, as at 31st March 2004, was given to CHP. These data extend back to when the database was being developed during the first six months of 2000. However, as the earliest data are not very complete and a decision has been taken by CHP to concentrate on the period for which a more complete dataset is available, from 1st July 2000 to 31st March 2004. These data cover some 34,000 individuals and represented returns made from 58 individual projects.

3 See also Fitzpatrick and Kennedy, (2000) for a discussion of these issues in relation to Glasgow and Edinburgh

4 The Scottish Executive made the data on 93,955 households that approached local authorities as homeless between 10th December 2001 and 30th September 2003 available to CHP for purposes of this research.

5 See Reid Howie Associates, 2003 for an evaluation of these projects.

6 Variable amounts of this grant were given to all local authorities by the Scottish Executive to help them implement in the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001.

7 i.e. the RSI funding element that is currently built in to Local Authority Revenue Support Grant at the time of writing, which will continue to distributed in this way until at least 2005/6.

8 Slang for 'clue' (Scooby Doo - Clue).

9 Residualisation is a shorthand term for describing the process whereby some social rented stock has been characterised by housing an increasingly socioeconomically excluded group of tenants. In part, this process has been fuelled by the Right to Buy, which took many employed former tenants out of the social rented sector and left economically inactive tenants within the sector. Residualisation also reflects the increasing proportion of socioeconomically marginalised households entering social rented housing as new tenants. For a discussion see Lee, P. and Murie. A. (1997) Poverty, housing tenure and social exclusion Policy Press: Bristol.

10 A similar pattern has been reported in London.

11 Some referred to the importance of continuing to have a ring-fenced pot of money, although technically this had already ceased at the time of writing

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