Providing Housing and Support
Lessons and Good Practice
In October 2002 the 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.