Events and training

• Meaningful Occupation group - regular meetings co-ordinated by Homeless Link. Contact Caitriona for more details.

• Career Coaches Programme - Open to unemployed people in West London boroughs.

• Inside knowledge: moving from offending and homelessness into employment - Training programme to enable work in supported housing.

Resources

• Off the Streets and into Work (OSW) - OSW supports individuals to access employment and training and provides information for organisations on how to support their clients.

• OSW's Transitional Spaces Project provides financial support for homeless people to get into work and settled housing. Pilot projects are running in London and Tyneside.

• Slivers of time - ultra-flexible employment opportunities, more information in project report

• Project Compass - employment support for ex-services personnel

• OSW Volunteering Guide - for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

• Jobcentre Plus - London Homeless Services Team - Outreach service providing Jobcentre Plus services to homeless people through regular sessions in venues used by homeless people.

• BBC RaW - BBC's largest ever adult literacy campaign with focus on entertainment.

Policy and research

• Skills and Employemnt in London - London Skills and Employment board strategy consultation - closes 21 January 2008

• Supporting employment – evaluation report from Centrepoint pilot scheme (January 2007)

• Ten key policy messages -from OSW, building on Enabling employment success research (2007)

• The costs and benefits of formal work for homeless people - OSW looks at the individual and wider social costs and benefits of work for homeless people. (December 2006)

• Include me in - Crisis report on how life skills can help homeless people back into work. (July 2005)

• No Home, No Job: moving on from transitional spaces - OSW research into homeless people’s experience of trying to move towards or into employment.

• Reducing re-offending through skills and employment - Green paper produced by the DWP, DfES and Home Office