Where people with multiple needs are explicitly recognised in government policy as a group requiring specific help to achieve positive outcomes; and where
Every adult who needs it is appropriately supported by a range of services (statutory and voluntary) to achieve their part in the rights, roles and responsibilities of society.
What is MEAM calling for?
Our ambition is a national programme of investment and reform to improve the well-being and life chances of excluded adults with multiple needs
We are committed to supporting our 1600 frontline agencies to achieve change and will work with them on this
We want the support of a national policy framework for multiple needs, linked to progressive local commissioning.
MEAM asks political leaders to:
Accept the social justice and economic cases for action on multiple needs
Explicitly recognise multiple needs in party manifestos, agreeing that people with multiple needs require specific help to achieve positive outcomes in their lives
Commit the next government to develop a national policy framework for multiple needs. This should expect local areas and the criminal justice system to define, engage, support and track the positive progress of the most excluded adults
Measure national progress (for example in a new PSA)
MEAM asks local politicians, officials, commissioners, prison governors and service providers to:
Develop local services that help every adult to achieve their part in the rights, roles and responsibilities of society
Work together to improve the delivery of services, increase the impact of public investment and create positive outcomes for people with multiple needs.
Make it standard practice for each local area to have a multiple needs framework in place to map issues and deliver change.
Our vision is of a society where every adult matters, regardless of the complexity of their needs:
- Where people with multiple needs and exclusions are explicitly recognised in government policy as a group requiring specific help to achieve positive outcomes; and where
- Every adult who needs it is appropriately supported by a range of services (statutory and voluntary) to achieve their part in the rights, roles and responsibilities of society.
Our ambition is for a national programme of investment and reform to improve the well-being and life chances of adults with multiple needs and exclusions.
What is MEAM calling for?
Progress on multiple needs and exclusions requires simultaneous action from frontline services and national government that builds on what works across both policy and practice. MEAM is therefore:
- Calling on government and political leaders: to commit to a green paper on multiple needs and exclusions that makes this a key cross-government policy issue and lays out a shared vision and approach
- Calling on local areas and services: to deliver coordinated responses, increase the impact of public investment and create positive outcomes for people with multiple needs and exclusions
