Bruno Ornelas (Head of Services at VOICES) and Andy Meakin (Project Director of VOICES) were among authors who contributed to the article “Increasing access to Care Act 2014 assessment and personal budgets among people with experiences of homelessness and multiple exclusion: a theoretically informed case study.” The article, published in Housing, Care and Support has just been selected by the editorial team as an Outstanding Paper in the 2019 Emerald Literati Awards. It was noted by the editorial team as an exceptional piece of work. The full article can be found as open access here.
The paper discusses the progress that is being made in Stoke-on-Trent to increase access to Care Act 2014 assessments and personal budgets amongst those experiencing multiple disadvantage. The authors discuss systems change activity, including the development of the Multiple Needs Toolkit which was developed to support staff within the voluntary sector “to communicate more effectively with adult social care around the application of the new Care Act 2014 eligibility thresholds”.
Congratulations to VOICES and all others involved in the paper on their award.