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Monitoring Homelessness Prevention
Duncan Gray & Dr. Andrew Waugh
14.03.2012
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Purpose
• To discuss and get your reactions to:-a) The need to gather statistical data on housing
options at national level.b) Options for doing this and our preferred
approach.
• Is the proposed approach:-– Sensible?– Feasible in a reasonable timescale?
• To get your advice on proposed next steps.
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Outline: Our views on
• Why monitor homelessness prevention?• What information should be collected?• How would it be implemented?
• Questions and discussion.– Feel free to interrupt as we go.
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Why?
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Why?: Information needs at different levels/ stages
Within team– Case management.– Service management.
Within council– Strategic planning: Housing Need and Demand
Assessments. – Senior management, members and public.
National and Parliament– Scottish Housing Regulator.– Statistical publication and reporting.
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Why national level information?
• Key priority identified by most at stats user group.
• Standard set of basic statistical information useful for:-– Regulator/ self assessment/ risk based assessment.– Sharing information about what works and why?
• Discharges public accountability for operation of policy:-– Parliament/ public/ voluntary bodies.
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• Social landlords work together to ensure that:
– people looking for housing get information that helps them make informed choices and decisions about the range of housing options available to them
– tenants and people on housing lists can review their housing options.
• Social landlords ensure that:
– people at risk of losing their homes get advice on preventing homelessness.
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What?
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What? Hierarchy of needs
• Everything starts with case management.– Basic detail needed to manage each case.– Supplementary detail to give context.
• At more strategic levels within the council and nationally.– Standard, regular summaries to track and
report progress.– The facility to drill down to explore/ explain
changes in trend and odd patterns.
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Sorts of strategic questions• What prevention/ option actions are most
effective for which groups?• How can we assess and respond to an external
shock. [e.g. HB changes]• What is driving the reduction in homeless
applications? [response to gate keeping concerns.]
• What are the main characteristics of affordable housing need? [Impact on LHS/ HNDA].
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What to collect: Our thoughts
• Basic Demographic Information– Number of adults and children– Age of Head of Household– Ethnicity and other equalities groups?
• Circumstances surrounding the approach• Local Authority Action or Actions• Outcomes
– Homeless Application– Tenancy/ Returned to previous accommodation, etc…
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How?
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How: Possibilities
• Options include.– a) Summary information similar to English
‘Homelessness prevention and relief statistics’?
– b) Electronic data capture at case level.• i) Extend the HL1 to cover all housing options
cases.• ii) Separate data capture for housing options
cases.
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Summary information (HL2 style)
• For– Not much cost to Scottish Government.
• Against– Cost to councils in assembling the information from
your systems.– Consistency/ comparability of data. – Can’t support further analysis, e.g. for Regulator..– Won’t answer the basic question of who is benefiting
and in what ways. [Unless we ask for lots of tables.]
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Case based.• For
– No costs to councils in assembling the data.– Better able to maintain consistency/ comparability.– Supports further analysis.– Identifies who benefits from what interventions.
• Against– Initial set up effort/ cost. Easiest for councils at the
earliest stage of implementing case management systems. [What is current position?]
– Effort in correcting errors.
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Extend the HL1?
– HL1 is about the operation of the homelessness legislation.
– Bringing all of housing options/ prevention in to the same system would cloud the distinction.
Homelessness
Prevention Work
Other Outcomes
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Outline of our preferred approach
Simple case based data capture based on outcomes.– Quarterly (or continuously).– 1 record for each case where there is an
outcome in that quarter.– No attempt to link cases over time. [Unless
sustainability of outcomes/ repeats is seen as an issue.]
– Capture basic information about household/ circumstances/ housing options actions/ outcome.
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Things to be decided (1)• Should we gather and publish national
level statistics on housing options?• Summary or case based?• If summary: How much detail in summary
table(s).• If case based: What electronic data
capture method(s) to use?
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Things to be decided (2)
• What constitutes an outcome?– Only cases where a need has been resolved; or
should ‘advice only’ cases be included?• How should we classify housing options actions?• How should we classify existing circumstances/
perceived housing need of those assisted?• What demographic detail is needed?
– Age/ sex/ HH type/ Equalities categories.
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Next steps?
• Depending on today’s discussion:-– Update paper to housing statistics user/
provider group in April.– Get the Minister’s and CoSLA (ALACHO?)
views.– Possible paper to 2012 Steering Group.
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The End
• www.scotland.gov.uk/homelessstats