Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, will visit Scotland in autumn to provide a keynote at Scotland’s annual homelessness conference. Ms Farha is Global Director of The Shift, an international movement to secure the right to housing which works with multi-level stakeholders around the world…
After just over a year off on maternity leave raising a very special little girl (I am biased I know!) I am so pleased to be back at work, juggling a new set of responsibilities and challenges. Before returning in April I felt anxious about what the reality of work…
Fair Way Scotland – a collaboration Four organisations provide support, advice and accommodation: Refugee Sanctuary Scotland Scottish Refugee Council Simon Community Scotland Turning Point Scotland Three organisations help connect, learn and influence: Homeless Network Scotland Institue of Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research at Heriot-Watt University Joseph Rowntree Foundation Working…
Scotland’s Housing First Conference takes place on Thursday 31 March in person once again and highlights conditions needed across health, housing, justice and social care to ensure that Housing First is successful as it scales up in most Scottish council areas. Firmly established as national policy in 2018, by the…
Scotland’s Housing First Conference on 31 March, taking place in person once again, will consider how a ‘no evictions into homelessness’ approach could work for tenants and landlords – and if it could be woven through the future Scottish rental strategy as a guiding principle. The Scottish Government is consulting…