Homeless Network Scotland: we are all in

First Route Map from Everyone Home Collective

Night shelters and hotel rooms as a response to homelessness will be actively designed out over the next phase according to plans published today by the Everyone Home Collective. The plans will feed into Scottish and local Government thinking as the country moves out of lockdown and considers the future…

19 charities call for ‘triple-lock’ to end rough sleeping after COVID-19

Nineteen influential charity sector organisations working to end homelessness presented a joint plan to the Scottish Government based around three key asks that experts and academics believe could permanently end rough sleeping and destitution in Scotland as the country emerges from the pandemic. The Collective, named Everyone Home, includes many…

Equalities, Homelessness & Covid-19

Maggie Brunjes, Homeless Network Scotland’s Chief Executive, looks at an unfair pandemic and the reasons why we are today publishing a new framework* to help redress this across homelessness policy and services. Already we know that the risk and impact of Covid-19 is not distributed equally. That it is having…

Housing First Annual Check-Up Published

Homeless Network Scotland have published the first annual check-up report on Scotland’s Housing First Pathfinder. Martin Gavin, Head of External Relations, picks out the key points. Reaching the first birthday of the Pathfinder designed to scale up Housing First across six local authority areas in five partnerships, is an important…