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“An ideal legal framework should create harmony rather than tension between the obligations and incentives law enforcement face, and those faced by health and social care providers. Where there is tension between legal enforcement and evidence-based interventions, substantial resources can be wasted on ineffective treatments, services that are never accessed by those who need them, or even interventions that increase rather than decrease people’s risks of harm.”

We are grateful for the opportunity to share our thoughts on priorities for the Scottish Government’s Justice budget 2020/21.

Over 10 years ago TPS invested in the UK’s first Housing First pilot project. This was in response to the clear evidence that there was a small but intractable population who were being failed – and worse, increasingly traumatised – by the homelessness system that was supposed to help them.