News

Carina Fisher, CEO at the Daylight Centre Fellowship in Wellingborough, writes about her experience of engaging candidates in the run up to the recent by-election.

As part of our 'A Home for Everyone' general election campaign, Homeless Link and The Bus Shelter MK met with candidates for election in Milton Keynes, from both the Conservatives and Labour. Fran from The Bus Shelter MK and Fiona from Homeless Link reflect on the meetings and what the next government must to do to end homelessness.

The difference between how Housing Benefit and Universal Credit calculate earnings mean some people living in hostels are actually worse off if they find employment. BHT Sussex have launched a campaign to address this.

The National Housing Federation's Starts at Home Day is on September 1. It celebrates the work of supported housing providers. In this guest blog, Dean McGlynn from NHF explains how you can support the campaign.

Lee Buss-Blair, Director of Operations and Group Veteran Lead – Riverside introduces Op Fortitude, a new government initiative aimed at ending veteran homelessness.

Luke Elton from Oasis Community Housing describes the steps his organisation has taken to truly embed a trauma informed approach to their work.

Amanda Dubarry, CEO at London based charity Your Place writes about how rising costs are influencing their services and the people they support.

Lucy Campbell, Head of Multiple Disadvantage at Single Homeless Project, tells us about the work they are doing to challenge the systems that keep women’s rough sleeping unseen.

Beverly Munden, Senior Practitioner at BCHA, writes about how rising rents and frozen LHA rates mean supported housing services are struggling to help people move on to independent accommodation.

Lee Buss-Blair, Director of Operations at Riverside writes about the pressures facing supported housing providers and what the Government can do to support.

Jan Sheldon, CEO of St Martins based in Norwich, writes about the impact of increased staffing costs and why they need an inflationary uplift as part of our new Keep Our Doors Open blog series.

Annie, Team Leader at Two Saints, shares her experience taking the Level 3 certificate in Providing Homelessness Services and how gaining an accredited qualification in homelessness support helped her to become a team leader.

Oasis Community Housing's new campaign aims to equip all frontline workers with knowledge of trauma.

Mathew Green from Crisis writes about their new campaign 'Regulate the Rogues' and how other organisations can get involved.

Catherine Ryder, Director of Policy and Research at the National Housing Federation, writes about their campaign to communicate the impact of supported housing and how organisations can get involved .

Lee Buss Blair, a Director of Riverside Housing, talks about his own personal experience of being gay in the military and how this can lead to veterans facing homelessness. He encourages members and their clients to respond to a new government inquiry.

As Fulfilling Lives South East closes it's doors, Systems Change Project Assistant Emily Page shares insights from their projects addressing the lack of access to safe accommodation for domestic abuse survivors with multiple and complex needs.

Lee Buss Blair, Director at Riverside Housing Operation, writes about what more services can do to engage and support veterans.

To celebrate Co-production Week, Matthew Bushnell from Mary Seacole Housing Association shares the experience of co-production in Luton where experts by experience, commissioners and service providers have been working together to support the Local Authority to draft a new strengths-based specification for their commissioned housing-related support services.

Since September 2020, The Passage has been piloting its Modern Slavery Navigator project. In this blog, Dr Julia Tomas explores the findings of The Passage's Modern Slavery Service Annual Report 2020/2021.