The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) are hosting an online event Housing Now, Housing’s Future which takes place between 18 February and 4 March in four packed events spread over four half-days. In summer 2020, SFHA and Homeless Network Scotland formed a strategic partnership, with the aim of strengthening…

The following training courses are running in February and March 2021. Co-Production in Commissioning and Procurement of Services (for local authority staff): 22 and 24 February from 10am until 1pm delivered over two, three-hour sessions. This course is for commissioning and procurement teams, grant making organisations and those in the voluntary…

During November 2,727 households made a statutory homelessness application to local authorities across Scotland, with 3,083 household accepting an offer of temporary accommodation. Local authorities and housing associations continued to support people out of homelessness by making a combined total of 1,986 permanent lets to homeless households.  At the end…

The Scottish Government requested the support of the Veterans Scotland Housing Group to explore, investigate, report, and recommend a pathway to end homelessness for veterans in Scotland.  The remit and approach to the project is likely to include: The definitions of homelessness Transition from Service and the barriers to housing…

A network of services and systems for people who live and work with homelessness after it has happened already exists across Scotland. But this is often too late and sometimes too slow. Instead, we want to connect what we know about the causes of homelessness with the local knowledge and…