Library

 Complex Responses (2011)

Understanding poor frontline responses to adults with multiple needs.

A review of the literature and analysis of contributing factors.

Turning the Tide (2011)

Our joint vision paper with Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM).

The paper addresses the huge financial and social costs of society’s failure to support the 60,000 adults facing multiple needs and exclusions in Britain today.

Counting The Cost (2011)

The financial impact of supporting women with multiple needs in the criminal justice system.

Findings from Revolving Doors Agency's women-specific Financial Analysis Model.

The Social Care Needs of Short-Sentence Prisoners (2011)

A literature review of the social care needs of prisoners sentenced to less than 12 months imprisonment. 

The review was commissioned by the North East Public Health Observatory on behalf of the Directorate of Social Care in the North East.

Thinking Local (2010)

Key lessons from the National Development Programme.

Our report looking at what was learned about the needs of people with multiple problems in contact with the criminal justice system and what works in developing local responses to those needs.

Summing Up (2010)

Revolving Doors Agency's key learning 2000-2009.

 Aiming Higher (2010)

A good practice guide for practitioners working with young adults with multiple needs, compiled using the views of young adults and professionals.

Part of our work with the Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance. Find out more about this work here.

 Towards a shared future (2010)

A commissioning guide on services for young adults with multiple needs.

Part of our work with the Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance. Find out more about this work here.

Multiple Needs: Service Users’ Perspectives (2009)

A report by members of our Service User Forum on experiences of accessing services.

Getting a blue life (2009)

Report from Action Research undertaken at HMP Everthorpe to ascertain views of prisoners on what a personalised service might look like and how their needs could be better met.

Hand to Mouth (2009)

Research report on the impact of poverty and financial exclusion on adults with multiple needs.

Unfamilar Territory: adult services 'thinking family' (2009)

Research on families and social networks and recommendations for developing practice around family work.

Same Difference?: Revolving Doors Agency’s approach to replicating innovation (2007)

This paper is a case study of the key strategic decisions taken by Revolving Doors Agency in replicating its innovation. The learning gathered during this process reflects the challenges and choices faced by an organisation that is (i) attempting to replicate solutions to socialproblems that are entrenched, complex and systemic; and (ii) working at points in the system where there is little commissioning priority and where no single funder or Government body has responsibility.

 Prisons: Britain's 'Social Dustbins' (2007)

Proposals to keep people with mental health problems out of prison.

Working with Complexity: Meeting the resettlement needs of women at HMP Styal (2006)

Report based on a needs assessment of the issues faced by women in HMP Styal with mental health problems who are returning to Greater Manchester. It examines why they become caught up in a cycle of abuse, crisis, drugs, breakdown and crime followed by imprisonment.

Lost in Translation (2005)

Interim findings from the Revolving Doors Agency Young People's Link Worker schemes

Bad Girls? Women, Mental Health and crime (2004)

Report on Women, crime and mental health

Snakes and Ladders (2003)

Findings from the evaluation of the Revolving Doors Agency Link Worker Schemes

Mental health, multiple needs and the police: Findings from the Revolving Doors Agency Link Worker Scheme (2000)

Findings from Revolving Doors Agency's Link Worker Schemes ion Bethnal Green, Islington and High Wycombe