For Commissioners
Resources
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Commissioning Homelessness Services: Building Good Practice
Insights from discussions held within our Commissioners' Forum Community of Practice series, covering five good practice areas: co-production, addressing the increasing complexity of need of service users, finding buildings for services, substance misuse in commissioned services, and the impact of the Supported Housing (Regulation and Oversight) Act on commissioning.
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Delivering Housing First from inception to sustainability
Toolkit and guidance to support Housing First providers across all elements of service delivery.
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Providing pet-inclusive services
Guidance on the importance of being a pet-inclusive service, including a video discussing common misconceptions of pet-ownership and homelessness, with practical solutions to pet-inclusivity.
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Commissioning homelessness services
This guide describes and gives good practice examples and approaches at each stage of the commissioning cycle, specifically for commissioning homelessness services.
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Influencing for change (Women’s Homelessness)
This briefing provides ‘Top Tips from the Frontline’ on influencing for change in the response of systems and services to women’s homelessness.
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Principles for Rough Sleeping Outreach
This document details the core principles required for designing and delivering rough sleeping outreach services in England.
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Designing community into housing for positive, sustainable outcomes
Your Place discusses its innovative congregate Housing First model and its transformative outcomes for residents.
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Camden: Trauma informed personal passports
To help people experiencing homelessness to access services more effectively the Camden Homelessness System Partnership has devised a passport that can be used across services. This guest blog explains more.
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First ever alcohol treatment clinical guidelines published
Developed by the Department of Health and Social Care, the aim of these guidelines is to promote and support good practice and improve quality of service provision, resulting in better outcomes for people who use alcohol problematically.
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New delivery framework published on co-occurring mental health and substance use
Developed jointly by the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, this new framework outlines how mental health, and drug and alcohol services should work together more effectively.
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A home is the only way to end homelessness
Alex Smith reflects on the inaugural European Housing First Partners Conference, held in Berlin in early November 2025.
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Fair Funding 2.0 consultation 2025 – Homeless Link’s response
Homeless Link has submitted a response to the government consultation on how local authorities are funded. You can read a summary here.
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Commissioning homelessness services training
This course will provide an introduction to commissioning homelessness services and explore what is considered good practice in commissioning.
Online Members £91pp, Non-Members £131pp -
Commissioning homelessness services training
This course will provide an introduction to commissioning homelessness services and explore what is considered good practice in commissioning.
Online Members £91pp, Non-Members £131pp -
Commissioning homelessness services training
This course will provide an introduction to commissioning homelessness services and explore what is considered good practice in commissioning.
Online Members £91pp, Non-Members £131pp