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Investing in Staff
These pages are provide good practice information on staffing issues for organisations working in the homelessness sector. More content will be added shortly.
What's New?
- Social inclusion charity and Homeless Link member P3, has been named UK Best Small Company To Work For 2007 in the Sunday Times competition.
- See our new briefings on recruitment and selection, which provide best practice policies and procedures for the recruitment and selection of staff.
- Our volunteers page includes materials developed with the BBC as part of its No Home season.
- The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act has received royal assent. The Act lays the foundation for a new vetting and barring scheme which will be phased in from autumn 2008. See our page on Criminal Records Bureau checks.
Resources
- See the section on Investing effectively in staff in Creating Change, Homeless Link's strategy for creating change in front line services to homeless people.
- The Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC) is a new national and international centre of excellence for the skills and knowledge needed to create communities fit for the 21st century. Its "Career Profiles" include Homelessness Charity Worker.
- The Workforce Hub helps voluntary and community organisations make the best of their paid staff, volunteers and trustees through workforce development.
- See our training and qualifications pages.