London briefings, consultations and responses

On this page you can download our quarterly briefings and read about the latest policy issues and good practice work shaping the homelessness sector in London. You can also find out about open consultations that you maay wish to feed into and read our responses to closed consultations.

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BRIEFINGS

Homeless Link produces quarterly briefings on the work of the London Delivery Board and the wider homelessness context in London.

• London No Second Night Out 6 monthly Report Briefing - January 2012
• Revised London Housing Strategy Briefing - December 2011
• Revised London Housing Strategy Initial Proposal, Briefing - September 2011
• Rough Sleeping Commissioning in London 2011-15 - July 2011
• Key London Homelessness Figures - June 2011
• Statistical Briefing on Recent Homelessness Trends in London by LA - April 2011
• Early Implementers and GP Consortia Pathfinders in London - March 2011
• The Transition Fund - 30th November 2010
• London Quarterly Briefing - July 2010
• London Local Election Briefing - May 2010
• London Quarterly Briefing - February 2010
• London Plan Briefing - December 2010
• Briefing on the Mayor of London's Refugee Integration Strategy - 'London Enriched'

CHAIN Statistic Briefings

• October-December 2011 (Quarter 3)
• July-September 2011 (Quarter 2)

We also produce briefings on London specific policy and good practice issues. Recent Briefings include:

• London Skills and Employment Strategy
• Referral Routes into London hostels

RESPONSES AND CONSULTATIONS 

Homeless Link undertakes consultations on a number of London specific policy issues.

Current London consultations:

None at present

Closed london consultations and responses:

• We have responded to London Council's Consultation on the London Boroughs Grants Scheme future funding priorities March 2012.
• Consultation of the GLA's Revised London Housing Strategy March 2012.
• London Councils future role and scope of the London Borough Grants Scheme. Homeless Link responded to both the main and the supplementary consultation.
• We have responded to London Council's Consultation on Future Funding.
• We have published our response to the Mayor's Health Inequalities Strategy (HIS). Our extensive HIS briefing gives background and an overview of the draft document.
• We completed a response to the draft London Housing Strategy following a period of conversation with member agencies. See our response to the London Housing Strategy. We also ran a number of Focus Groups, in partnership with clients, on the draft strategy and some of the key questions around homelessness - see the main points which came out of this process
• As well as producing a response to the draft London Housing Strategy we also completed an extensive briefing on its contents: The London Housing Strategy (Public Consultation Draft) - Summary
• In partnership with St Mungo's, we have  also set up a London Client Consultation group. Recent subjects covered by this group have included Social Housing Allocations and the London Housing Strategy.