Making a House a Home: The House Project Evaluation

TY - BOOK

T1 - Making a House a Home

T2 - The House Project Evaluation

AU - Dixon, Joanne

AU - Ward, Jade

PY - 2017/3/20

Y1 - 2017/3/20

N2 - The Stoke-on-Trent House Project (HP) represents a new way of supporting care leaversto take control of their transitions to independent living, offering them greater involvementand choice in creating a long-term home after care. It created a housing company based on co-operative principles to enable young people to take a major role in finding, refurbishing and establishing their own home, alongside a tailored package of support. In doing so, it aimed to improve young people’s housing stability and satisfaction and, from that base, their wider post-care outcomes including participation in education, employment and training (EET), general wellbeing andintegration through opportunities to develop greater autonomy and transferable skills. The evaluation included an exploration of the processes involved in setting up and operationalising the housing company and its early impact on the experiences and outcomes of young people within the co-operative as they transitioned from care.

AB - The Stoke-on-Trent House Project (HP) represents a new way of supporting care leaversto take control of their transitions to independent living, offering them greater involvementand choice in creating a long-term home after care. It created a housing company based on co-operative principles to enable young people to take a major role in finding, refurbishing and establishing their own home, alongside a tailored package of support. In doing so, it aimed to improve young people’s housing stability and satisfaction and, from that base, their wider post-care outcomes including participation in education, employment and training (EET), general wellbeing andintegration through opportunities to develop greater autonomy and transferable skills. The evaluation included an exploration of the processes involved in setting up and operationalising the housing company and its early impact on the experiences and outcomes of young people within the co-operative as they transitioned from care.

UR - https://springconsortium.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/1.2.70-Stoke-Evaluation-Summary.pdf

UR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBQznsEqA34&t=127s

M3 - Commissioned report

T3 - Children's Social Care Innovation Programme

BT - Making a House a Home

PB - Department for Education

CY - London

ER -