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…

The Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Humza Yousaf  announced in Parliament yesterday that a number of short-term prisoners nearing the end of their time in custody are to be released early, under measures designed to help tackle the (COVID-19) outbreak. Regulations will be laid before Parliament on the 30th of April…

Maggie Brunjes, Homeless Network Scotland’s chief executive, asks – can rough sleeping in Scotland get a fresh start? Just weeks before the Covid-19 crisis emerged, we held a partner’s event on the theme of rough sleeping. There were more people in the hall that day than there were people outside…

In 2018/19, 1,822 homeless applications were recorded as having been from people leaving prison, which represents five per cent of the total. It is likely that this figure does not represent the full scale of the problem, with applicants often unwilling to reveal their background. With discussion around more widespread…