The following training courses are running in February and March 2021. Co-Production in Commissioning and Procurement of Services (for local authority staff): 22 and 24 February from 10am until 1pm delivered over two, three-hour sessions. This course is for commissioning and procurement teams, grant making organisations and those in the voluntary…
A guide for Scotland’s 32 local authorities is published todaysummarising more than 100 recommendations from the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group (HARSAG) after it was reconvened by the Scottish Government in response to the pandemic. The guide has been developed by Crisis and Homeless Network Scotland, with support from local authority officers and the Scottish Government. HARSAG met…
Homeless Network Scotland and Crisis Scotland, working with local authority and Scottish Government colleagues, have prepared a short guide on what the HARSAG recommendations mean for Rapid Rehousing Transition Plans going forward. The guide is intended to assist local authority leaders to transfer policy and practice recommendations from the Homelessness…
Let’s hear it for the policy writers, the strategy framers and the law makers! Day 2 of the Safe As Houses conference was a celebration of the many unsung heroes of the moment, working rapidly to make substantial changes to law and policy to protect the people most at risk…
The Shared Spaces research now underway in Scotland will assist local authorities and partners delivering local Rapid Rehousing Transition Plans (RRTPs). The research starts from the basis that even in the best managed homelessness systems, with adequate access to affordable and suitable housing, there may be a requirement for other…
