Distance travelled: towards a PIE services assessment and specification tool

 2: Key requirements for a PIEs assessment tool

The underlying task here is to maintain and advance the momentum of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs) primarily but not exclusively in homelessness resettlement services, whist retaining their innovative and service-led character. 

Therefore a tool that allows services, commissioners and others to identify for themselves how far they have reached, in developing as a psychologically informed service, needs to support this double aim. This has a number of more general implications, explored in this section, as broad requirements for a PIEs assessment tool.