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Tracking progress towards ending rough sleeping
In this guest blog, Rob Anderson from Centre for Homelessness Impact introduces a new framework to measuring rough sleeping and to help understand how we might make progress towards ending it.
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Legislation watch: What next for homelessness bills?
With the General Election being called, Sophie Boobis explains what happens next to legislation that might impact on homelessness.
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Policy Influencing Network: Reflecting Back
Come along to this one-hour session to share your successes no matter how big or small with likeminded policy workers.
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Homeless women’s health matters
Jo Prestidge looks at some of the specific health challenges facing women who are homeless and how services can support them. She looks particularly at recent research on menstruation and some new resources on the menopause.
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Our leadership development programmes achieve ILM recognition
We’re delighted to announce that our leadership development programmes, Established Leaders and Emerging Leaders, have been approved as ILM Recognised.
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“It’s okay not to be okay”:
In this second blog for mental health awareness week, Jo Prestidge writes about the wellbeing needs of people who are working in homelessness.
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Homeless Link meets with Shadow Homelessness Minister
Ahead of the General Election, Homeless Link have today been briefing Labour's Homelessness spokesperson Mike Amesbury MP on the key issues facing the sector.
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Beam: Helping end homelessness with the power of tech and community
Member Blog
Guest blog from one of the founders of Beam, Alex Stephany, explores the history and explains how they use a hybrid crowdfunding-caseworker model to eliminate financial and personal barriers to leaving homelessness.
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Mental health and homelessness: an inextricable link?
This Mental Health Awareness week take a few minutes to read about the links between mental health and homelessness. And unpack a treasure chest of useful practical resources.
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New women's rough sleeping census
The latest edition of the Women's Rough Sleeping Census has been published, Alex Smith reports from the launch event with more details.
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Homeless Link responds to CHAIN and Statutory Homelessness statistics
Huge rises in homelessness and rough sleeping shows the Government's rough sleeping strategy has failed.
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Homeless Link signs letter to Home Secretary
The letter, organised by Crisis and signed by other 30 organisations, warns that the measures in the Criminal Justice Bill will undermine the Government's target of ending rough sleeping in England.
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Tomorrow is too late: suicide prevention support for people with no fixed address
This guest blog is written by Eva Bell, Participation Officer at Samaritans and lead of the Suicide Prevention Consortium.
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Free online training from Homeless Link
Checkout our free online bitesize e-learning packages for people working in frontline homelessness services. Also including fundraising training.
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Households threatened with homelessness over 80,000 times due to Section 21 evictions since Government promised to scrap them
Our analysis found that no fault evictions led to a household being threatened with homelessness 52 times a day on average since April 2019.
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Putting principles into action: supporting staff in rough sleeping outreach services
Introducing free resources and E-Learning to support people working in rough sleeping outreach services.
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Greater Change: personalised budgets to support people out of homelessness
Member Blog
Jonathan Tan, Founder and CEO of Greater Change writes about how their model of providing personalised budgets helps people out of homelessness for good.
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Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) and homelessness
Ahead of the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Elections on 2nd May this guest blog looks at the roles of the PCC, how they can impact on homelessness and why we should engage with them.
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Race, ethnicity and experiences of homelessness
Carmen Clarke, Homeless Link Associate, shares her insights from updating the Race, ethnicity, and experiences of homelessness course.
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Sasha Foundation, grants for charities working on mental health issues
The Sasha Foundation makes grants up to £10,000 for charities helping individuals who are suffering from depression and mental health issues or who are confronting drug abuse issues.