Exempt Accommodation
Resources
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Becoming a Registered Provider of Social Housing
Guidance on the stages of applying to be a Registered Provider of Social Housing, including details of what documentation is required at each stage.
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Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act consultation: Homeless Link response
Homeless Link's response to Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act consultation
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Preventing evictions and abandonment
Practical guidance for people working in supported accommodation settings to prevent evictions and abandonments.
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Supported Housing and Housing Benefit
Watch our webinar on an introduction to Housing Benefit for accommodation service providers.
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Our Manifesto to End Homelessness
With a general election looming in 2024, we have published our manifesto to end homelessness. Drawn from from our unique position as the membership body for over 800 homelessness organisations across England. It builds on work with our members, on engagement with specialists and experts and on the rich body of evidence on what works to end homelessness, outlining our core ambitions of the next government.
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Webinar: Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill with Bob Blackman MP
In this webinar recording, we hear from Bob Blackman MP on the regulation of supported exempt accommodation and what it means for supported accommodation providers.
News
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The Power of Language: Why words matter in Supported Accommodation
A blog from the Ferry Project about how trauma informed conversations and motivational interviewing can deliver better outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.
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Housing Benefit issues for supported accommodation providers: update
Some local authorities may be pre-empting the supported accommodation regulations. Read more here and tell us about your experience.
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Using In-Form to understand the relationship between health and homelessness
Cate Standing-Tattersall from the Homeless Link Research Team tells us about a groundbreaking new research project and how your service can be part of it.
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Annual review of support to end homelessness reveals a sector stretched to the limits
Homeless Link launches its annual research report exploring trends in support for single homelessness.
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Homeless Link’s response to the supported accommodation regulations consultation
After consulting our members Homeless Link has submitted our response to the Supported Housing Regulation Consultation. Whilst welcoming the drive to better standards there are significant concerns with the proposed implementation.
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Homeless Link present Breaking the Cycle campaign to MPs
MPs hear about Homeless Link's Breaking the Cycle campaign for a fairer and more efficient homelessness funding model at the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Ending Homelessness
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Frontline Practice Forum: understanding challenging behaviour in supported housing
Join our Practice Forum for frontline workers in supported housing services, focused on understanding challenging behaviour through a trauma-informed lens.
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Webinar: Preventing evictions from supported housing
A free webinar for people working in supported housing services, platforming approaches to reducing evictions by embedding trauma-informed care.
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Strengths-Based Practice: an introduction
Find out how working with people's strengths can make their experience of services more dignified, useful and empowering - and lead to better outcomes.
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Compassion-Informed Workshops: What if the way we react to the crisis, is the crisis?
A programme of compassion-informed practice development. This programme consists of 2x half-day interactive online workshops. Through exploring compassion for others (people who access services) and compassion for self, the workshops aim to help you get curious about your subconscious drivers and develop your capacity to respond – not react, to the challenges you face at work.
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Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE)
This course teaches you how to create a supportive environment by exploring five important elements and empowering frontline staff to lead the change.
Online Members £135pp, Non-Members £175pp