Improving Front Line Collaborative Responses to Multiple Exclusion Homelessness: Community of Practice Development Programme

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We are proposing to develop six 'Communities of Practice' across different locations in England to further develop and implement our research findings on multiple exclusion homelessness. At its most simplistic, a 'Community of Practice' is a group of practitioners who are passionate about a topic and who want to work together in more collegaite ways to improve things for service users and their families. We want to know how 'Communties of Practice' work to help foster better relationships between different professionals and agencies and whether they are effective in achvieving improvements (impacts) in front line service delivery. This is an important area for follow-on activity as successive governments have found it very difficult to implement research/policy which is targted at achvieing more 'joined-up' service delivery.