Rough Sleeping
Resources
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SWEP and winter provision toolkit
A toolkit to help local authorities and homelessness service providers develop suitable responses during the winter and periods of severe weather.
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Guidance for rough sleeping outreach services and volunteers
Guidance for frontline staff and managers working in rough sleeping outreach services and a printable information leaflet for new or existing volunteers for outreach services.
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Rough Sleeping Snapshot Estimates Toolkit 2024
Local authority leads and snapshot estimate coordinators should follow this guidance to plan and execute their annual rough sleeping snapshot estimate, and have it verified by Homeless Link ready for online submission to MHCLG no later than Friday 6th December 2024.
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Service responses to hot weather
Case studies from different London boroughs who adapted their support for people sleeping rough during periods of extreme heat.
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Tracking progress towards ending rough sleeping: a webinar on insights and new indicators
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Supporting individuals during hot weather
Information and guidance on supporting people experiencing homelessness during hot weather, including recognising heat-related illnesses and how to keep cool in the heat.
News
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Swift action needed on homelessness epidemic as London rough sleeping rises
Homeless Link responds to the CHAIN Q1 2024/25 rough sleeping statistics
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Rural Homelessness Counts Coalition: one year of making a difference
In Rural Housing Week 2024 the Coalition launches a new CoP and recognises the progress made in raising awareness of the hidden crisis of rural homelessness.
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Over 350 Parliamentary Candidates sign Homeless Link's pledge
Candidates from across the country and representing the political spectrum commit to help end homelessness.
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Highest ever recorded rough sleeping numbers in London
Homeless Link's response to the annual CHAIN report for 2023-24 which shows record numbers of rough sleepers recorded in London.
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Legislation watch: What next for homelessness bills?
With the General Election being called, Sophie Boobis explains what happens next to legislation that might impact on homelessness.
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Tracking progress towards ending rough sleeping
In this guest blog, Rob Anderson from Centre for Homelessness Impact introduces a new framework to measuring rough sleeping and to help understand how we might make progress towards ending it.
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Hoarding awareness workshop
Develop an understanding of the reasons a person may hoard and how to support a person to overcome barriers to disposing of their hoard.
Online Members £125pp, Non-Members £165pp -
Navigating Mental Health Services
This course is designed to help you understand how mental health problems can present, and how mental health services work, so that you can more easily ensure that you get the right help for your client.
Online Members £125pp, Non-Members £165pp -
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 £125pp, Non-Members £165pp -
Suicide: prevention, intervention and post-incident protocols
This course will explore the theory and practice of suicide intervention skills that can be applied in any professional or personal setting. This course is for anyone who seeks greater understanding and confidence to intervene with people at risk of suicide. This course also explores possible prevention and post-incident protocols, and how to support service users and staff after an incident.
Online Members £125pp, Non-Members £165pp