Refine your search
-
Guidance
Homelessness partnership self-assessment toolkit
14 March 2024
The Homeless Link Partnership Assessment Toolkit helps leaders from across the homelessness sector to make an assessment of their local partnership working or homelessness forum. The practical framework is accompanied by a guide.
-
Guidance, Webinar
Holding conversations about health
01 March 2024
People experiencing homelessness face significant healthcare challenges and significant barriers to accessing healthcare services. We have created a range of resources to ensure workers in the homelessness sector have existing skills and opportunities to talk to people around their healthcare needs.
-
Guidance
Improving access to dental care for people experiencing homelessness
23 February 2024
Report by the Homeless Health Consortium to explore ways to improve access to dental care for people experiencing homelessness.
-
Guidance, Research
Our Housing First Research
02 February 2024
Homeless Link’s Housing First England research programme is designed to learn directly from services about how Housing First operates in England. We are using this new evidence to continue to develop services, to strengthen the relationship between these providers and the related services working with them to support residents, and to ensure that Housing First is a viable option for all those that need it.
-
Guidance
How can local authorities help prevent domestic abuse?
07 December 2023
Domestic abuse is a primary trigger of homelessness among women and providing an effective response should be a key priority for local authorities across England.
-
Guidance
Rough Sleeping Snapshot Estimates Toolkit 2023
31 August 2023
Local authority leads and snapshot estimate coordinators should follow this guidance in order to plan and execute their annual rough sleeping snapshot estimate, and have it verified by Homeless Link, ready for online submission to DLUHC no later than 8th December 2023.
-
Guidance
Engaging other sectors in Housing First
15 May 2023
These resources support Housing First providers and commissioners to engage the criminal justice, health, mental health, social care and substance use sectors in Housing First.
-
Webinar
Leadership Support: Ask a CEO with Seyi Obakin OBE
04 May 2023
In this 90-minute webinar, we hear from Centrepoint CEO Seyi Obakin OBE about the challenges and joys of leading the UK’s largest youth homelessness charity for nearly 20 years.
-
Guidance
Health & Homelessness Case Studies
16 February 2023
People experiencing homelessness experience some of the worst health outcomes in society. Read our case studies from organisations who have developed new ways of working to improve the health outcomes of the people they support.
-
Webinar
Safeguarding children and young people in homeless settings
24 November 2022
Following the publication of our guidance Safeguarding children and young people, this webinar will explore actions individuals and organisations can take to implement effective safeguarding practices.
-
Prevention in practice: local responses to youth homelessness
03 November 2022
Case studies detailing approaches and actions local authorities have taken to prevent young people from rough sleeping or becoming hidden homeless.
-
Guidance
Managing transitions in Housing First services guidance
03 October 2022
This guidance for frontline services covers different points of transition in Housing First, including when a resident no longer needs support, periods in prison, death and dying, moving to alternative accommodation and withdrawal of consent.