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Guidance
Principles for Rough Sleeping Outreach
Updated: 18 Oct 2024
This document details the core principles required for designing and delivering rough sleeping outreach services in England.
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Guidance
SWEP and winter provision toolkit
Updated: 17 Oct 2024
A toolkit to help local authorities and homelessness service providers develop suitable responses during the winter and periods of severe weather.
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Guidance
Guidance for rough sleeping outreach services and volunteers
Updated: 27 Sep 2024
Guidance for frontline staff and managers working in rough sleeping outreach services and a printable information leaflet for new or existing volunteers for outreach services.
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Webinar
Ending Rough Sleeping Data Framework: Webinar
Updated: 13 Aug 2024
This webinar with Centre for Homelessness Impact (CHI) discusses the new Rough Sleeping Data Framework & provides concrete examples of how it is already working well for the local authorities that have piloted the framework.
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Guidance
Supporting individuals during hot weather
Updated: 12 Aug 2024
Information and guidance on supporting people experiencing homelessness during hot weather, including recognising heat-related illnesses and how to keep cool in the heat.
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Guidance
Service responses to hot weather
Updated: 17 Jul 2024
Case studies from different London boroughs who adapted their support for people sleeping rough during periods of extreme heat.
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Webinar
Outreach Learning Forum: Resources
Updated: 21 Mar 2024
Presentation recordings & slides from the Outreach Learning Forum: a series of interactive, online sessions aimed at rough sleeping outreach workers, to increase knowledge of how to support individuals with complex needs. Topics covered include: learning disabilities, brain injury, self-neglect and mental health.
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Guidance
Rough sleeping verification
Updated: 21 Aug 2023
Read the write up of findings from our focus group on rough sleeping verification and other pathways into rough sleeper services.
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Webinar
Preparing for hot weather
Updated: 01 Jun 2023
This webinar showcases new heat-related health guidance to support people experiencing homelessness, including information on hot weather SWEP.
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Policy document
Response to Government consultation on replacing the Vagrancy Act
Updated: 26 May 2022
Homeless Link's response to the Government's consultation on replacing the Vagrancy Act