This report explores the costs and benefits of a sample of cases dealt with by the FirstStop local partners providing housing options services to older people. It focuses on the intensive level three casework data provided by the local partners.
It looks at a sample of the client cases they have dealt with to analyse the potential savings to the public purse of the housing options case work. It is part of the independent evaluation of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) funded FirstStop local partner programme in 2013-15.