Members of Scotland’s new team to tackle homelessness and its causes updated the Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning, Kevin Stewart MSP, this week on their work so far, signalling the beginning of the end for traditional responses to homelessness in Scotland. Titled All In For Change, the team…

Communication from Scottish Government Homeless Team, 12 March 2020 Over the past week the Scottish Government Homelessness Team has been working with teams across Government, considering our business continuity plans, building on existing work for pandemic flu in preparedness for an outbreak of the Coronavirus COVID 19.  In the same…

“In Glasgow we’ve got so many of the ingredients we need to end rough sleeping. We’re further ahead than others and probably more than we think. If we really collaborate we can really get this done.” Local services in Glasgow set out what they need to end rough sleeping, what…

A networking event focused on rough sleeping took place at Glasgow City Chambers yesterday (Wednesday 26 February 2020).It brought together representatives of the key organisations concerned with homelessness in the city, including members of the new Glasgow Alliance to End Homelessness, the Glasgow Health & Social Care Partnership, grassroots networks…

The Prevention Commission met for the second time on 2 February 2020 in Glasgow. Read more in the report >