Decision details

The Complex Lives project is built on many of the principles and activity of the Stronger Families programme. The workers engage with individual adults who have multiple issues and complex lives; supporting them to improve their lives and build resilience to maintain a more stable lifestyle.

To develop an Innovation Fund based on the Stronger families model for the Complex lived Programme. Allocate £30K from the Flexible Homelessness/Rough Sleepers Grants to meet the costs of the Innovation Fund.

Option 1 - Do nothing; this means that workers spend a great deal of their time chasing opportunities and this impacts on their time and effectiveness. Often these searches are fruitless resulting in frustration by the worker and client thus impacting on outcomes.
Option 2 - Rely on existing crisis funds available; this would restrict the type, amount and timeliness of access to funds that are required to support these individuals. The fund will be an additional resource for this cohort.
Option 3 - Reproduce the Stronger Families Innovation Fund; this is the preferred option as it already has been implemented and tested with Stronger Families and proven to be effective. The 'Changing Lives Fund' as it is to be know will provide the lead workers with small amounts of funds to enable them to improve engagement and progress of individuals by providing practical support to issues they face.