Homeless Network Scotland: we are all in

Housing First passes 300 tenancies

Scotland’s Housing First Pathfinder has created more than 300 tenancies with an additional 50 added since April, a monitoring report released today has revealed. Housing First provides ordinary, settled housing as a first response to redress disadvantage and for people whose homelessness is made harder by experiences such as trauma and addiction….

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Our Impact: Connect, Learn & Act on Homelessness

Our latest Impact Report sets out the work undertaken by Homeless Network Scotland in the first half of 2020. It goes without saying that the circumstances over the spring and early summer were exceptional. We entered the year with a clear focus on our priorities but by March, like everyone, we faced…

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Human Rights and No Recourse to Public Funds Consultation

Some people are more exposed to a range of trauma and harm as a result of the circumstances they were born into. Some of the most harrowing experiences are lived by people from parts of the world where they are no longer safe and who ask from Scotland a place…

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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…

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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…

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Our news

Housing First passes 300 tenancies

Scotland’s Housing First Pathfinder has created more than 300 tenancies with an additional 50 added since April, a monitoring report released today has revealed. Housing First provides ordinary, settled housing as a first response to redress disadvantage and for people whose homelessness is made harder by experiences such as trauma and addiction….

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Safe as Houses: Conference now open for sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities

Safe as Houses, 20 – 22 October We are proud to host Scotland’s largest networking and knowledge events on ending homelessness. Across 3 dynamic days (20-22 October), Safe as Houses will explore what is needed to build forward from the last 6 months to make sure that homelessness services – and people directly…

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Connect

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Upcoming events & conferences

TBC

Housing First Scotland Annual Conference

TBC

Edinburgh International Conference Centre

October 2020

Homeless Network Scotland Annual Conference

20-22 October 2020

Online

Learn

We are learning from evidence and each other’s experience. All in.

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Centre for Homelessness Impact

Institute of Global Homelessness

Housing First Scotland

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