It’s an interesting day for news. The justice committee have revealed today that probation officers spend just 24% of their time interacting with offenders. This has been blamed on a “tick box”, “bean counting” culture. But the question is who sets the targets that create the culture? … A rhetorical question – it’s the civil [...]
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The importance of time
Posted in emotional support, homeless, motivation, tagged engagement, homeless, Homelessness on July 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Dissecting people with social problems
Posted in emotional support, Poverty, rough sleeping, tagged children, poverty, problematic behaviour, rough sleeping on July 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
According to a report out today: “The gap between the poorest pupils and their better-off peers in struggling schools in England is wider than in other schools, research suggests.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14082644 In schools below the national average standard a Sutton Trust study found that primary school children eligible for free school meals were half as likely [...]
Where do homeless people come from
Posted in addiction, emotional support, Health, heroin, homeless, mental health, motivation, Poverty, problematic behaviour, rough sleeping, street homelessness, tagged addiction, alcohol, children, emotional support, engagement, homeless, Homelessness, offending behaviour, rough sleeper, rough sleeping, street homelessness, support work on July 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Children’s Society yesterday reported on the numbers of pre-teen runaways increasing (link below) and the risks that these young people face once they have fled their home or care. The report noted that a child runs away from home every five minutes in the UK and one in three of these will go unreported. [...]
Know your Place?
Posted in emotional support, motivation, tagged emotional support, self image on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
According to a BBC report today: The UK performs poorly in an international league table showing how many disadvantaged pupils succeed “against the odds” at school. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has studied how pupils from poor backgrounds can succeed academically. It says that “self-confidence” is a key factor in whether such [...]
How do we engage with difficult people?
Posted in Bradford, emotional support, homeless, rough sleeping, street homelessness, tagged Bradford, emotional support, homeless, Homelessness, outreach, rough sleeper, rough sleeping, street homelessness, support work on June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are three main strategies that we employ to engage with the group of people we support who have real challenges engaging with support services. They are a regular and committed presence on the streets, to approach people with simple human kindness and a patient / never give up attitude. Our worker in Bradford, Mat [...]
It’s a soup-run, but it’s not about soup
Posted in emotional support, homeless, Leeds, mental health, motivation, practical support, rough sleeping, street homelessness, tagged emotional support, engagement, homeless, Homelessness, Leeds, outreach, rough sleeper, rough sleeping, self image, street homelessness on May 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We had a great soup-run in Leeds last night. Our purpose is to provide a good atmosphere for people who are out on the streets –not to attract people to the streets. The food we offer, from our perspective is a means to an end – we are not trying to feed the hungry but [...]
How long is a piece of string
Posted in emotional support, homeless, rough sleeping, support work, tagged Bradford, engagement, homeless, outreach, rough sleeper, rough sleeping, support work on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mat in Bradford talks about the challenge of the early work trying to engage with a non-engager: “I identified this guy from Ivory Coast as a complete non-engager based on my own experience and what I’d heard from other services. After many failed attempts to connect with him I found out where he was sleeping [...]
Are you cops?
Posted in emotional support, homeless, Leeds, offending behaviour, problematic behaviour, rough sleeping, street homelessness on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the volunteers and I were walking through the centre of Leeds last night on our way up to the soup-run when we spotted a couple of guys who we had seen at the soup-run a few weeks before. We didn’t really know them but had had a quick chat with them. As we [...]
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