Scottish Government and COSLA have issued non-statutory guidance for local authorities, social landlords and private rented sector landlords to help them meet duties and legal requirements during the coronavirus pandemic. While recognising the range of challenges of allocating housing during the Covid-19 crisis, the guidance also provides practical considerations and…

Maggie Brunjes, Homeless Network Scotland’s Chief Executive, looks at an unfair pandemic and the reasons why we are today publishing a new framework* to help redress this across homelessness policy and services. Already we know that the risk and impact of Covid-19 is not distributed equally. That it is having…

There are grim links between homelessness, human trafficking and modern slavery. The take-away message from Police Scotland at a Homeless Network Scotland members event before the Covid-19 outbreak was that a ‘false alarm is better than no alarm’. This advice rings even clearer now, with the pandemic exacerbating an already…

The Scottish Government is working with UK Government to extend testing to a wide range of key workers. Testing will allow symptomatic key workers and their household members to know whether or not they have the virus to help keep essential services running. This includes third sector frontline services, including…

Homeless Network Scotland invites you to a series of webinars beginning on Monday 27 April at 2.00pm, covering a range of themes concerning the additional impact of Covid-19 on homelessness in Scotland. From Precarious to Permanent, the series begins with an in-depth look at current homelessness policy in response to…