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Report on six month fixed term contract to asses the role and context of social work service on the spinal injuries unit - R.N.O.H. Stanmore
- Author:
- WALLACE Alison
- Publisher:
- Harrow. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1983
- Pagination:
- 13p.,appendices.
- Place of publication:
- Harrow
Demonstrating the effectiveness of housing support services for people with mental health problems: a review
- Authors:
- PLEACE Nicholas, WALLACE Alison
- Publisher:
- University of York. Centre for Housing Policy
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 81p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Housing Associations and other support providers deliver crucial services to help people improve their mental health, maximise independence, sustain their accommodation and participate in community life. This includes meeting specific mental health needs through specialist accommodation and support. There is considerable opportunity to use housing support more effectively in care pathways, as well as providing alternatives to residential care, often in out of area placements. However, there is a need for a more robust and powerful evidence base of the effectiveness of housing support. This research reviews the effectiveness measures already available and in use and considers the development of an evaluation methodology that could become the benchmark for future research and evaluation. The review found that there was considerable variation in the provision and nature of housing support services for people with mental health problems. This variation had partially arisen for historical reasons but was also linked to guidance on the use of funding streams for supported housing that defined what could be funded in quite broad terms. This gave local authorities and service providers’ scope to innovate and develop service provision in their own ways.
Homelessness and financial exclusion: a literature review
- Authors:
- WALLACE Alison, QUILGARS Deborah
- Publisher:
- Friends Provident Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 62p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dorking
This report presents the research evidence on the nature and impact of financial exclusion on homeless people, as well as the range of interventions that are presently used to address this financial exclusion. Research and reports were identified through a combination of electronic searching of academic databases, internet searches, and also of key agency websites and contact with key staff from homelessness and financial exclusion agencies. The search identified a substantial literature regarding financial exclusion within the context of social exclusion or asset-based welfare, however, found less literature relating to homeless people’s perceptions and experiences of financial exclusion. This review therefore explores the key features of the literature regarding promoting financial inclusion in low income households generally as well as that which examines homeless people's experiences more specifically. Section 1 of the report outlines the background to financial exclusion in the UK, and how the issues of exclusion and self-exclusion relate to homeless people. Section 2 reports on the range of interventions designed to overcome financial exclusion amongst disadvantaged communities and those that specifically target homeless people. Section 3 explores a range of issues that arise from the literature review that require further debate and research.
Demonstrating the effectiveness of housing support services for people with mental health problems: a review
- Authors:
- PLEACE Nicholas, WALLACE Alison
- Publisher:
- University of York. Centre for Housing Policy
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 81p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This review looks at how housing support services for people with mental health problems could better demonstrate the range of support they provide and also clearly show the benefits of that support. In particular, the review aims to identify measures that can be used to examine the effectiveness of housing related support for people with mental health problems and to explore the potential for developing an evaluation methodology. A Rapid Evidence Assessment methodology was used to identify empirical studies which investigate the effectiveness of housing support services for people with mental health problems. The review starts by providing an overview of the range of housing support services that exist for people with mental health problems in the UK and also reviews some of the challenges that exist in evaluating those services. It then discusses how best to measure the effectiveness of services, the benefits they deliver to service users and their cost effectiveness by drawing on the evidence from existing evaluations of housing support services for people with mental health problems. Finally, it presents a guide to developing a practical model for monitoring and evaluating service effectiveness, including, where possible, recommendations for the employment of specific methodologies.
Home-owners and poverty
- Authors:
- WALLACE Alison, RHODES David, ROTH Firona
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 58
- Place of publication:
- York
This report examines the circumstances of home-owners who are in poverty, where they live and their housing finances, and how these may have changed over time. The report shows that poverty among home-owners has reduced significantly over time, but less so for households with mortgages – poverty was higher for this group in 2013/14 than before the financial crisis. Home-owners in poverty were twice as likely to report arrears (14%) than other mortgaged households (7%), and were overwhelmingly led by someone in work, meaning that the current system of mortgage safety nets fails to meet their needs. The report also finds that the homes of older home-owners in poverty required significant investment (£2 billion) to bring them up to the Government’s Decent Homes Standard. Key recommendations include: policies that promote the expansion of home-ownership among low- to moderate-income groups should be accompanied by programmes that support these households, which are shown to be at greater risk of poverty and default; regulatory authorities should check longer mortgage terms are sustainable over the whole term and monitor whether longer-term loans have any impact on the level of investment in pensions; greater attention needs to be paid to the poor housing conditions among home-owners in poverty, particularly older outright owners; a comprehensive review of mortgage safety nets is needed to determine how low-income home-owners should be supported in the future. (Edited publisher abstract)
Poverty and ethnicity in Northern Ireland: an evidence review
- Authors:
- WALLACE Alison, McAREAVEY Ruth, ATKIN Karl
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Part of a wider programme of work on the interplay of poverty and ethnicity around the UK, this study examined the research evidence on the relationship between poverty and ethnicity in Northern Ireland and how issues of poverty affect people from different minority ethnic communities. The research involved a comprehensive literature review of empirical research since 1998 and focus groups with people from the Roma, Somali, Chinese and Polish communities and with local stakeholders from statutory and community organisations with an interest in migrant and minority ethnic groups. The report describes the project and presents the findings. It looks at what is known about poverty and minority groups in Northern Ireland, the legislative framework to address poverty and ensure equality for minority ethnic groups, experiences of low incomes and accessing key resources or services among minority ethnic groups, and the findings from minority ethnic and stakeholder focus groups. It discusses how new migrants have joined long-standing communities of people from minority ethnic groups, the policy framework to address racial inequalities in Northern Ireland, and how the legacy of conflict in the region may affect minority ethnic groups. It makes recommendations to limit the apparent poverty among some people from minority ethnic groups, focusing on enhancing opportunities in the labour market and ensuring that appropriate benefits and services are available and used.
Rapid evidence assessment of the economic and social consequences of worsening housing affordability
- Authors:
- WALLACE Alison, JONES Anwen, DUFFY Steven
- Publisher:
- National Housing and Planning Advice Unit
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 114p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Fareham
This research review of 99 studies identified from an extensive search of the literature, considers what the impacts of housing affordability problems in the United Kingdom have been for individual households and for the economy as a whole, and what the effects on social inequalities might be. It found that issues of high affordability have yet to be overcome due to tighter lending conditions, despite a fall in the housing market. There is the suggestion that demand for, and ambitions towards, homeownership have, for many households, been unfulfilled resulting in impacts such as increased demand for social housing. Recruitment and retention problems for public services in high cost areas have emerged as staff relocate to areas with less expensive housing. The concerns regarding disparities in wealth between renters and tenants seem to be well founded, as are fears that worsening housing affordability has worsened social inequalities. Weaker demand for home ownership in the younger age groups is attributed to: high levels of student debt, delayed entry into the labour market, the need for mobility when establishing a career, delays in starting a family, and a consumerist lifestyle. But young people remain committed to home ownership in the long term and, for some, family support has become increasingly important. Consequently access to homeownership is increasingly becoming accessible only to those whose own parents are homeowners. For some householders homeownership comes at a risk as drawing upon their housing wealth has led to arrears and repossessions. The report concludes that homeownership does produce wealth inequalities between owners and non-owners, as well as large inequalities within the tenure. Also the extent to which households with little or no housing wealth, or for those at risk marginal households in homeownership, are disadvantaged is influenced by social policy.