Criminal Justice
Best practice in supporting homeless women
Homeless Link research identifies promising practice of gendered approaches to supporting homeless women.
15th March 2019
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Homeless Link research identifies promising practice of gendered approaches to supporting homeless women.
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This month’s slides provide insights into injecting behaviour and the changing demographic profile of England’s opiate and crack users.
Joint report from Prison Reform Trust and Women in Prison chart how the desperate lack of suitable housing for women offenders is rapidly worsening.
New thematic report from HMI Probation finds that one third of homeless young offenders are placed in unsafe/unsuitable accommodation.
Most prisoners still had less than two hours a day out of their cells and we found more than half the population locked behind their doors during the working day.
The PbR model appears to be incentivising delivery as intended and there is no evidence of perverse incentives. The ethos of the provider organisations means that they are both committed to continuing support for those who remain on the streets.
This is just the latest piece of research that reinforces the need to develop a more integrated system of social care. Although few argue against a more co-ordinated approach, we seem to have made very little progress towards constructing it with joined-up commissioning apparently as difficult to achieve as ever.
