Ten Right time, right place? The experiences of rough sleepers and practitioners in the receipt and delivery of personalised budgets
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Philip Brown
Abstract
This chapter outlines one way in which personalisation has been implemented within the field of homelessness within the United Kingdom. The chapter draws on research findings from a longitudinal study in Wales, which evaluated the delivery of an approach to allocate ‘individual budgets’ to people experiencing homelessness. The chapter outlines the effectiveness of the approach both in terms of outcomes for those who participated as recipients and its operationalisation by workers. The chapter makes a number of central points. First, individual budgets can be a particularly effective tool in reducing the length of time homelessness is experienced. Second, how such budgets are delivered is as important as the budgets themselves. The skill of workers to work in innovative and creative ways is crucial to their success. Finally, there are inspiring findings arising which point to the pragmatic yet frugal approach by rough sleepers towards the use of individual budgets.
Abstract
This chapter outlines one way in which personalisation has been implemented within the field of homelessness within the United Kingdom. The chapter draws on research findings from a longitudinal study in Wales, which evaluated the delivery of an approach to allocate ‘individual budgets’ to people experiencing homelessness. The chapter outlines the effectiveness of the approach both in terms of outcomes for those who participated as recipients and its operationalisation by workers. The chapter makes a number of central points. First, individual budgets can be a particularly effective tool in reducing the length of time homelessness is experienced. Second, how such budgets are delivered is as important as the budgets themselves. The skill of workers to work in innovative and creative ways is crucial to their success. Finally, there are inspiring findings arising which point to the pragmatic yet frugal approach by rough sleepers towards the use of individual budgets.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Notes on contributors v
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Continuities and change in UK social policy
- Behaviour, choice, and British pension policy 3
- Coalition health policy: a game of two halves or the final whistle for the NHS? 23
- Citizenship, conduct and conditionality: sanction and support in the 21st-century UK welfare state 41
- Housing policy in the austerity age and beyond 63
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Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2015
- ‘Progressive’ neo-liberal conservatism and the welfare state: incremental reform or long-term destruction? 89
- Exploring out-of-work benefit claimants’ attitudes towards welfare reform and conditionality 105
- The Troubled Families Programme: in, for and against the state? 127
- What counts as ‘counter-conduct’? A governmental analysis of resistance in the face of compulsory community care 147
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Individualised budgets in social policy
- Social insurance for individualized disability support: implementing the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) 173
- Right time, right place? The experiences of rough sleepers and practitioners in the receipt and delivery of personalised budgets 191
- Personal health budgets: implementation and outcomes 211
- Personalised care funding in Norway: a case of gradual co-production 233
- Individualised funding for older people and the ethic of care 251
- Index 269
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Notes on contributors v
-
Continuities and change in UK social policy
- Behaviour, choice, and British pension policy 3
- Coalition health policy: a game of two halves or the final whistle for the NHS? 23
- Citizenship, conduct and conditionality: sanction and support in the 21st-century UK welfare state 41
- Housing policy in the austerity age and beyond 63
-
Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2015
- ‘Progressive’ neo-liberal conservatism and the welfare state: incremental reform or long-term destruction? 89
- Exploring out-of-work benefit claimants’ attitudes towards welfare reform and conditionality 105
- The Troubled Families Programme: in, for and against the state? 127
- What counts as ‘counter-conduct’? A governmental analysis of resistance in the face of compulsory community care 147
-
Individualised budgets in social policy
- Social insurance for individualized disability support: implementing the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) 173
- Right time, right place? The experiences of rough sleepers and practitioners in the receipt and delivery of personalised budgets 191
- Personal health budgets: implementation and outcomes 211
- Personalised care funding in Norway: a case of gradual co-production 233
- Individualised funding for older people and the ethic of care 251
- Index 269
