The Scottish Government’s Budget for 2022 to 2023 sets out the direct spend on homelessness; £10 million is being made available from the Ending Homelessness Together fund including additional funding for rapid rehousing transition plans. The £23.5 million homelessness support fund to local authorities is being maintained. More detail on…

The Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill was written by activists and was published as a member’s bill by the Scottish Conservatives. A consultation was launched in October 2021 on a proposal for a Bill and closes in January 2022. The Bill aims to give people a right in law to access a range of different options for treatment and services. In 2020, National Records…

At our annual conference in 2018 Baroness Casey of Blackstock (at that time Dame Louise Casey) announced that Glasgow would take a leading role in a new global programme to end street homelessness by 2030. The ‘A Place to Call Home’ initiative is led by the Institute of Global Homelessness…

Roundtable for Funders, Grant Makers & Commissioners 9 December 2021 | 12.30 – 2.00pm | MS TeamsChaired by Dr Jim McCormick, Chief Executive of The Robertson Trust An important lunch-time session to take-stock of recent policy and mood changes that will impact on how people seek sanctuary in the UK….

Housing First Connect, Know-how, Check-up and Academy. Find out more here about the range of support that is available for everyone involved in branching out Housing First across Scotland. Housing First Scotland – the help [click video to play] Housing First Scotland – the help [pdf click image to download]…