Report: Evaluation of Crisis Skylight services

A report provided findings from the first year of a three-year evaluation of Crisis Skylight services in Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Merseyside, Newcastle, and Oxford.

Skylight services were designed to improve the social and economic position of single homeless people, with a particular focus on education, employment, and arts-based activities.

The report said that Skylight represented a ‘major innovation’ in service provision focusing on the social integration of homeless people, and that the services had strategic coherence and a clear set of goals.

It said there were clear indications that Skylight delivered outcomes in education, training, and paid work, and that the services were perceived to fill a significant gap in provision.