Business Plan Improve The Standard Of Living

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Executive summary
It is proposed in the business plan to provide a 8-week programme which will be used
to improve the standard of living in the homeless people of Kensington and Chelsea by
engaging them with different occupations and making them aware about living a safe and
healthy life.
The major issues that are addressed and proposed to be solved by this self care a van
are summaries below:
 In the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea homelessness has become a major
problem
 There are several assistance programmes available but these are not focused on self
care
 In order to provide the basic ADL skills, the interventions are prepared
 The government and the taxpayers do not address the requirement of the homeless
people as addressing their problem will require high cost.
 To reduce the problem of homelessness and to develop social reintegration it is
essential to provide the homeless people the basic needs, ADL skills, and providing
basic educational training.
 The self - care - a - van project is going to be the first innovative programme in
central London which will address the basic needs of the homeless people of this area.
 This project will provide a cost-efficient method of solving the problem of
occupational crisis and the process of bringing the homeless people in normal life
course.
 The project will assist the individuals who are engaged in dark occupation by
motivating them to participate in meaningful and legal professions.

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 The report contains a risk assessment and forward management plan to manage the
process by which this project will help the homeless people and to assess the risk that
is associated with the execution of this programme.
 This programme will provide job opportunity to the homeless people.
Current situation
As per the part VII of the housing act 1996, an individual will be treated as homeless
if he or she does not have a permanent accommodation for their professional requirements.
Kensington and Chelsea which is recognised as the richest borough in London also
faces the problem of homelessness and almost 1441 people of this borough is homeless which
indicates that among 7 peoples in this area 1 people is homeless. This reflects that how the
problem of homelessness is spreading from the centre of London to the remote areas of south
east and midlands, and the adverse effect of high rent and the reduction in the cost of the
welfare services by the government rise up at a significant rate (Fitzpatrick et al 2016).
It is become difficult for a homeless people to get a meaningful work, in order to stay
physically fit and to develop social relationship, homelessness also create a negative impact
over the local communities (White et al 2018).
The risk factors that are associated with the homelessness are poor family functioning,
poor socioeconomic condition and children have to stay without their parents.
Demographics
The main problem that the homeless people used to face is that they get sick due to
unhygienic lifestyle, they don’t know how to cook healthy food and they even don’t have any

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idea about the manner in which they should behave with the other people of the society.
(Mackie Johnsen and Wood 2019).
The factors that influence homelessness are classified in to two categories external
and internal, all these factors are summarised in the following table
Internal External
Lack of support on providing education. Obstacles from society
Homeless people often get abusive
behaviour from the society
Most of the homeless people re immigrant
of other countries
Socio economic status is poor Lack of information regarding homeless
services provided.
Substance misuse Social, cultural factors which are out of
control of an individual.
Major occupational requirement of homeless people
 Needs with related to hygienic life style
 Lack of availability of clean clothes
 Unavailability of legal occupations
Occupational science
 The basic points that is included in the occupational science are narrated below
 Equal opportunity to homeless people to get a meaningful job.
 Reducing discrimination and creating respect for the homeless people
Analysis of market

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Services available
 Shelter in double decker bus
 Shower van
Areas where improvement required
 No emphasis given on creating job opportunity
 Government does not take active role in improving the standard of living of homeless
people.
Costs and risks of not addressing the problem
It is predicted that the government of United Kingdom has to incur an annual cost of
€1.10 billion for improving the standard of living of the homeless people. The average cost
per homeless people is considered to be €4298. With the increase of the rate of misuse of
drugs and alcohol the number of homeless people also increases for which people have to go
for mental treatment more frequently. The self care van will provide services regarding the
improvement of the standard of living which can save almost €796000 (Sharman et al 2016).
Proposed solution: Self-Care-A -Van
An 8-week programme is designed by the self car a van to increase the standard of
living of the homeless people in the Kensington and Chelsea borough of London. This can be
achieved by rendering the training classes on shower and hygiene education, hairstyling and
hair dressing kitchen skills and conversation about housing reintegration, behaviour
management, vocational education coaching and forward signposting (Fransham and Dorling
2018).

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The proposed project will provide highly mobile services to fulfil the demand of the
homeless people so that they can live a healthy and meaningful life. The project will also
evaluate the progress of the services provided and will ensure the effectiveness of such
services in improving the life of the homeless people.
The Self-Care-A-Van services will be run by one OT and three assistants every
session can give training to 25 participants at a time.
Intervention timeline.
Description Objective Timeline
Advertisement The advertisement will be
made by stakeholders’
recent posters of homeless
services
Week 4
Assessment Gathering information 1 week
Intervention Provide shower and hygiene
education, behaviour
management, kitchen skills
and conversation about
housing reintegration.
Week 1 to 8
Evaluation Valuation of the services
rendered
Week 8