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Develop your service
This section contains information and good practice examples to help organisations providing services to homeless people develop these services and help bring about an end to homelessness.
Our dedicated Handbooks good practice microsite now includes a section on education, employment and training services. Other sections cover hostels, day centres, resettlement and street outreach.
Creating Change is Homeless Link's strategy for changing front line services to homeless people.
What's new in the develop your service section?
- Communities and Local Government (CLG) has announced the 15 social enterprises that will compete for a £500,000 prize fund through Spark. Read more.
- Homeless Link has announced the winners of the Michael Whippman and John Laing Charitable Trust Day Centre of the Year awards.
- Homeless Link has published a report into housing organisations' use of outcomes measurement systems.
Homeless Link training
- Our short training courses provide essential skills for staff at all levels.
- Homeless Link has launched a new service to enable member organisations to have a complete training needs analysis for staff.
- Do you find that Homeless Link's scheduled courses are too far away or beyond your budget? Our Consortium training is designed for you.
- Leading places of change is a leadership programme for service managers in the homelessness sector. It has been developed jointly by the Chartered Institute of Housing, Homeless Link and Broadway and is funded by Communities and Local Government.
Please note Homeless Link no longer delivers qualifications
Moving people forward
See our pages on helping homeless people move forward with keyworking, motivational interviewing, therapies, etc. Find out how hostels, day centres and social enterprises can become places of change and how arts, lifeskills training, and meaningful occupation can contribute to successful resettlement.
Running your service
The Running your service section covers organisational issues for service providers: Management and Governance; Funding; Investing in Staff; Quality and Outcomes. Key good practice issues are Couples, Diversity and Service User Involvement.
For any comments about this section please contact craig.weeks@homelesslink.org.uk