What we are doing Providing briefings, events and training to help national and local partners to prevent homelessness earlier. Raising awareness of the benefits of taking a place-based approach to preventing homelessness and supporting local partnerships to develop their policy and delivery. Innovating with key partners on a “test-of-change” to…
David Ramsay is Change Lead at Homeless Network Scotland. I’m sitting here at my desk in Glasgow and the weather is dreadful, I’m day-dreaming. My thoughts drift back to the many times I’ve been out in the rain with nowhere to go. These are the times I must not forget…
A coalition of organisations have congratulated Scotland’s new First Minister and urged his attention on repairing the social housing budget and on protecting duties to prevent homelessness. Thirty-five organisations have written an open letter to First Minister John Swinney MSP in this 25th year of the Scottish Parliament. The Everyone…
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…
The Prevention Commission – people with lived and frontline experience of homelessness and members of the All in for Change Team – have been working together for nine months to help design new legal duties to prevent homelessness in Scotland. Through their meetings they have come together to share our…