Housing First Scotland and All in for Change are joining forces to open doors for housing, homelessness and related sectors at free day-long events in three cities. The Change Team are coming to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness for morning sessions to hear about homelessness prevention across Scotland. The focus is…

Raising the Level: from hard edges to whole lives shone a light on the hard edges of multiple disadvantage in Scotland to expose the human harm and economic cost of fragmented services – and plot how we fix the broken system that is failing people, communities and society. The landmark…

It’s just over a year since the Scottish Government published its Housing Emergency Action Plan with a promise of “positive and lasting change” and a specific pledge to “ensure children are not spending long periods in temporary accommodation.” Twelve months on, and Scotland’s annual homelessness statistics released this week make…

Healthy homes, healthy futures is the theme of this year’s Scottish Housing Day, on 16 September. To mark the moment, our Head of Policy and Impact Matt Hamill sets out in Scottish Housing News exactly why home matters so greatly in providing the foundation for building settled, healthy lives. As Matt…

Yesterday saw MSPs return to Holyrood from their summer recess and with no hanging around it was straight into launching the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government. Homeless Network Scotland’s Head of Policy and Impact Matt Hamill welcomes the focus on prevention and joined-up ways of working – but says commitments…