Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, will visit Scotland in autumn to provide a keynote at Scotland’s annual homelessness conference. Ms Farha is Global Director of The Shift, an international movement to secure the right to housing which works with multi-level stakeholders around the world…
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All in for Change National Roadshow
The Change Team are going on tour! To find out what progress people are seeing towards ending homelessness in Scotland. As part of their mission to help bring policy decisions closer to the real change people are experiencing on the ground, they want to talk to you. This national conversation…
Spotlight on drug-related deaths – and potential solutions
Michelle Major, Improvement Lead with Homeless Network Scotland summarises new data on early mortality among people experiencing multiple disadvantage, the latest data on drug related deaths in Scotland and the solutions put forward by the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce. Every day in Scotland, three people suffer a drug-related death. Each…
The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey
Book review by David Pentland, Homeless Network Scotland In the introduction of the book, Darren outlines the political landscape in the UK. He sets the scene well, with some reflections of the social distance between the Conservative government’s policies and legislation, and the aspirational needs of working-class people. He also…
Blog: Ginny Cooper – No Wrong Door, better joined up working for those navigating a complex system
On Tuesday 26 July, representatives from across Scottish Government joined Homeless Network Scotland to discover and define what a practical, joined up system response should look like for people facing severe and multiple disadvantage – people having a really tough time. We were excited to meet colleagues from across the…