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Partnership/funding opportunity: Changing systems to support adults experiencing multiple disadvantage
Via the MHCLG:
Changing Futures: changing systems to support adults experiencing multiple disadvantage
There are an estimated 363,000 adults experiencing multiple disadvantage in England - including a combination of homelessness, substance misuse, mental health issues, domestic abuse, and contact with the criminal justice system.
Many of these people have been caught in this situation for years, experiencing entrenched disadvantage, trauma and ill-health. They come into repeated contact with our police, criminal justice, and emergency response services without receiving the support they need to help them break the cycle – generating significant costs to the public purse without seeing improved life outcomes. The Changing Futures programme aims to change this.
Working in partnership in local areas and across government, it will test innovative approaches and seek to drive lasting change across the whole system to provide better outcomes for adults experiencing multiple disadvantage.
This prospectus invites expressions of interest from pioneering local partnerships who want to be part of this journey. We want to learn from the innovative work already going on in local areas, and to build on this with a new approach between government and local areas. The learning we generate will help to shape future policy and inform better approaches across the country.
There’s a webinar tomorrow if people are interested in finding out more ... and the deadline for EOIs is 21 January 2021.