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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.
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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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England got homelessness service commissioning right before, and it can again
The lack of ringfenced funding for supported housing and the resulting removal of the mandatory national quality standards have created a bleak race to the bottom, writes Lee Buss-Blair of Riverside, as part of the Reset Homelessness campaign.
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Practice Innovation Forum - improving access to mental health support
Join our latest Innovation Forum focusing on ways to develop better access mental health support for people experiencing homelessness. Hear from speakers innovating in this area and use innovative thinking techniques to generate solutions to the challenges faced within your own local area.
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Exploring the state of the homelessness sector
This webinar will dive into the 2024 findings of our unique annual review of services addressing single homelessness in England and their implications for the sector, and explain how you can use the research to support your work locally to end homelessness.
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Improving nutrition among people experiencing homelessness
Join Homeless Link and Providence Row as we launch research that aims to enhance nutrition and recovery among people experiencing homelessness and share practical actions that homelessness staff can take to improve access to healthy food and nutrition for the people they support.
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Mental Health and homelessness
Mental health issues and homelessness are closely linked, you may regularly support vulnerable individuals experiencing a range of mental health issues. This practical course will give you the skills needed to support individuals experiencing mental health issues.
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Complex Needs, Dual Diagnosis and Personality Disorder
This course will provide an introduction to the these topics and will explore ways of supporting people and maintaining staff wellbeing.
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Understanding Self-Harm
This course will explore how trauma can create self-harming behaviour in a person as a way of managing emotional distress, and look at how to support people away from self-harming to alternative ways of managing their emotions.
Online Members £135pp, Non-Members £175pp