Developed through the Changing Futures Community of Practice in Stoke-on-Trent, this Safety and Wellbeing Assessment Toolkit is an evolving, strengths-based approach to assessing risk with people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness. Created by Expert Citizens CIC in collaboration with practitioners, partners, and people with lived experience, the toolkit reflects a shared commitment to more person-centred, trauma-informed ways of working.
Designed for use in complex, high-risk cases—particularly where individuals face multiple disadvantage, potential service exclusion, or are being supported through multi-agency approaches such as Team Around the Adult—the toolkit supports practitioners to navigate uncertainty and disagreement. It is especially suited to settings where lower caseloads allow for deeper, reflective, and co-produced assessment.
Moving away from deficit-focused models, the toolkit places individuals’ voices, aspirations, and protective factors at the centre of assessment. It enables co
