Happy New Year and a Happy Lunar New Year to everyone celebrating on the 29th of January! With the new year comes new learning opportunities focused on areas including staff wellbeing, and the skills that elevate good practice to great in the homelessness workforce. And on top of that we…
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Why workforce wellbeing matters and what you can do
At the busiest time of year for the homelessness workforce, it is more important than ever to centre collective care in our work, says Homeless Network Scotland Learning Lead Laura Ffrench-Constant. We all know why worker wellbeing is important. Happy and resilient workers lead to better outcomes for the people they…
Blog: we need to open doors together
The No Wrong Door action learning partnership was launched in September and is testing out how to create cross-sector, integrated services in four places in Scotland, with local results informing a blueprint for joined-up service delivery nationwide. The programme aims to make it easier for people to get support when…
Blog: 5 years on, we’re still All in for Change
All in for Change is a team of people with personal and frontline experience of homelessness who work to influence change in the way we address and resolve homelessness in Scotland. The Team first met in December 2019 to help close the gap between policy and action on the ground…
We must go forward on housing rights – not back
Mhairi Snowden, Head of Policy and Programmes, Homeless Network Scotland It is vital that we keep the housing rights we have, and that the Scottish Government and councils work together to make them a reality. This is the important message of a letter from Everyone Home, a collective of almost…