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Homelessness Provision for the Future

15 Sep 2021 - 3:14pm

Homeless Link publishes two new reports today looking at the state of the homelessness sector and ...

Homeless Health Consortium launched

15 Sep 2021 - 10:39am

All of us working in homelessness know that health is a critical issue for those who are precariously housed, or not housed at all. We know that within the homelessness population there are high rates of mental ill-health, high rates of physical...

Stats summary: MHCLG’s latest homelessness statistics for 2020-2021

13 Sep 2021 - 12:13pm

On 9 September 2021, MHCLG released the ...

Preventing homelessness amongst new refugees

10 Sep 2021 - 12:09pm

Updated guidance for homelessness services working with refugees and people seeking asylum, including information about Afghan relocation and resettlement.

Homelessness and Covid: What does the future hold?

17 Aug 2021 - 11:00am

As we begin to return to pre-Covid ways of living through the lifting of restrictions and a reliance on vaccination success, it begs the question what has changed for homelessness provision? What role must we play to keep people safe, both now and in...

Respite Rooms: Creating a safe space for women sleeping rough, survivors of domestic abuse

17 Aug 2021 - 10:00am

140 single gender spaces will be created as part of a £3.7m fund providing safe accommodation with expert specialist support. But does this go far enough for women experiencing homelessness and domestic abuse?

We hear from one of our members...

Over 100 organisations and councils make the pledge to Support, not Deport, people sleeping rough

9 Aug 2021 - 9:18am

As of today, 112 local authorities and charities have made the pledge to not participate in new Home Office rules around rough sleeping. 

“You can’t do Housing First to people.” How the second evaluation of the Housing First regional pilots shows the importance of choice and co-production

29 Jul 2021 - 10:04am

“You can’t do Housing First to people.” This mantra, asserted by one of the providers of the three Housing First regional pilots in England, echoes throughout the ...

New templates to help recruitment

26 Jul 2021 - 10:59am

We have worked with our members to build a bank of job descriptions to help you recruit for key roles in the sector.

The end of communal night shelters?

21 Jul 2021 - 9:14am

Many councils, charities and faith groups are starting to think about their local emergency winter provision and for some the prospect of communal sleeping spaces will once again be under consideration. There are a number of factors which could...