HARD EDGES SCOTLAND DEVELOPING A PROFILE OF SEVERE AND MULTIPLE DISADVANTAGE IN SCOTLAND

The former approach is equivalent to that used in the Hard Edges study for England, while the latter corresponds to the main approach used in the Gendered Profile study5 2.2 Formal Definitions In this section (Box) we set out the formal definitions used of each domain of SMD, as operationalised in this research. [...] CJ stats for offenders in the community are aggregated and do not contain indicators of homelessness (nor reliable measures of substance etc); therefore in this case we apply proportions observed in the SCJS dataset, of offenders who have indications of homelessness over all offenders, to the total of offenders supervised in the community. [...] However, insofar as only some of the datasets include measures of particular characteristics, then the number of datasets feeding in to each table/chart will fall short of the full set of data 12 Destitution in the UK 2018 Technical Report, 21 sources contributing to the numbers. [...] It may be the case that the drug treatment service is not reaching all of its potential clientele (some evidence for this is given in the qualitative part of the research), but it is also apparent that the definition of drug misuse in some of the surveys is wider than the threshold for access to higher tier services. [...] There is a stronger relationship in terms of the chances of living in the poorest 10/15% of DZs, with the proportion of past SMD3+ cases living in such areas being four times the proportion for those with no disadvantages.