An evaluation of the Safer Communities Supported Housing Fund and the Approved Development Programme Pilots for Teenage Mothers

In October 2002 the then Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, now Communities and Local Government, commissioned a research team from the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, to evaluate the Safer Communities Supported Housing Fund (SCSHF) and the pilots for teenage mothers funded through the 2000/2001 round of the Approved Development Programme (ADP). The ADP pilots focused upon accommodation-based support, but the SCSHF supported both accommodation-based and floating support schemes for young people at risk; victims of domestic violence; offenders and those at risk of offending; and people with drug and alcohol problems.