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Broadway’s Personal Budgets Scheme was featured as an article in The Guardian on 21st April 2010.
Broadway and The City of London Corporation have been piloting “personalised budgets” for the most entrenched rough sleepers for the past 9 months. The aim of personalised budgets is to give back control to the rough sleeper by offering them a designated co-ordinator, who can ask them what they need to help them off the streets as an alternative to the usual options, such as accommodation at a temporary hostel. This can include furniture, rent deposits, emergency utility bills or even travel costs.
The article details the scheme's encouraging results so far - that of 15 men who were offered personal budgets 9 months ago, 10 are still in permanent accommodation. The article follows Broadway’s Personal Budget Co-ordinator, Liz Blackender, on an outreach shift in the City, relaying first hand experiences of people that have benefitted from the scheme.
To read the full article, please follow the link below:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/apr/21/homeless-rough-sleeping-cash-incentive
Read more about Broadway's Personal Budgets Scheme.
For more information on Broadway, please contact Caroline Sweeney on 020 7710 0615 email caroline.sweeney@broadwaylondon.org
