Begin scoring your service, policy or strategy

Enter the title and use the sliding scale to score the impact of your service, policy or strategy. Give a score to each factor; this should express the impact on all households you work with, assessed as a single group.

Name of your service, policy or strategy
  N/A Major negative impact Major positive impact
Access to material and economic resources
Access to public and private services
Access to social resources
Crime, harm and criminalisation
Culture, education and skills (communication and knowledge)
Economic participation
Health and well-being
Living environment (environmental)
Living environment (housing)
Living environment (neighbourhood)
Political and civic participation
Social participation
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Equip has been developed for the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by ECOTEC Research and Consulting and Torchbox.

Its purpose is to help housing providers quickly and easily assess the impact of their existing or potential new policies on service users. This can be done both by considering service users as a homogenous group and as part of distinct groupings (such as 'households with disabled members').

What differentiates Equip is that the impact assessment is extended to households who are in, or are at risk of, poverty. It was in that context that the toolkit was developed.

The impetus for the work came from realisation that, although in recent years housing associations were undertaking more financial inclusion, financial capability, anti-poverty and employment and training related initiatives, little consideration had been given to assessing the impact of their general housing policies. On the face of it, they may not have a direct negative financial impact. However, they nonetheless may influence behaviour and lifestyle - particularly affecting income or expenditure patterns.

The Equip team are:

Danny Friedman, Director, Ecorys
Sally Houghton, Service Improvement Manager, Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust
Alison Jarvis, Programme Manager (Place), Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Acknowledgements

This site was developed as an output from a project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by Ecorys and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.

We would like to acknowledge the Bristol Social Exclusion Matrix (B-SEM) which informed the framework and Torchbox for the design and development of the site.

For information about the toolkit:

Please contact Sally Houghton at the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.

For technical queries about this website (or to report errors, bugs, comments, and suggestions):

Please email web@jrf.org.uk and your query will be dealt with by the appropriate person.