Hostels
Resources
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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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2022 Annual Review of Support for Single Homeless People in England
The annual survey of services for people who at risk of homelessness shows an increase in demand for services, whilst the number of bed spaces is reducing. It highlights a growth in the number of people presenting with complex needs.
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A New Season For Night Shelters
A research report by Juliette Hough and Becky Rice – June 2021.
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Hostels and social networks
What can we learn about creating positive social networks for people living in hostels?
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Managing Accomodation
Meeting your responsibilities as a manager of building-based services.
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Supported housing and hostels
Our report, the Future Hostel, draws on findings from ten in-depth case studies of hostels across England and analyses data from Homeless Link’s online database of homelessness services.
News
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More than 110 homelessness CEOs call for National Insurance support
Homeless Link has coordinated a letter to the Chancellor laying out the sectors' acute concerns on the impact of the increased National Insurance contributions.
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Seeking solutions to prevent homelessness for people leaving prison
As the government brings forward early prison release, Vicky Album looks at the implications for the homelessness sector and explores some of the better practice that can be adopted to prevent prison leavers becoming homeless.
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Chancellor’s inaction on homelessness is dangerous
Homeless Link responds to the Budget announced on 6 March.
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Important cold-health alert information for supported housing and floating support providers
With the weather getting significantly colder, supported accommodation and floating support providers need to take action to ensure the safety and wellbeing of those using their services.
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The StreetVet Accredited Hostel Scheme is helping keep pets and their owners together
StreetVet has entered the 4th year in providing its Accredited Hostel Scheme to temporary accommodation providers across the UK. In this guest blog, they reflect on their successes in keeping those experiencing homelessness and their pets together.
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Key findings of the 2022 Annual Review of Single Homelessness: More demand. Less supply. More complex needs.
Unpacking the results of this year's annual review, Sophie Boobis looks at some critical trends and key findings in the homeless sector.
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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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Keyworking: person-centred and creative
This course will give you the knowledge and understanding to develop your keyworking approach, with a focus on motivation, engagement and creative problem-solving. It will help you to respond creatively to non-engagement and ambivalence about change, using different strategies to achieve a person-centred and strengths-based approach to keyworking.
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Professional boundaries
Staff can be faced with dilemmas and can sometimes find themselves in tricky situations where they are uncertain of the most appropriate course of action. This course will enable participants to explore these critical issues.
Online Members £125pp, Non-Members £165pp -
Trauma-Informed for managers
This course will provide an overview of Complex Trauma and explore how a trauma-informed approach can be safely and effectively implemented by managers across their teams.
Online Members £125pp, Non-Members £165pp