News

• Brown in brief - Homeless Link briefing on key government initiatives for the homelessness sector in Gordon Brown's first month as Prime Minister

• Tackling Drugs, Changing Lives award - individual and team awards open for nominations until 17 August

• Homeless kick off - Homeless World Cup taking place in Denmark

• Youth media - Foyer launches ten new media centres

In the Media

• Psychology for the streets - profile of Brighton's Single Homeless & Rough Sleepers Psychology team

• Uniting with the USA - London experts to advise US counterparts on identifying routes out of homelessness.

• Sex to gain shelter - agencies identify new trend of young homeless gay men exchanging sex for a bed for the night.

• At home with the homeless - profile on Emmaus community leader

• Street struggle - challenging ideas on rough sleepers' mentalities

• Journeys Home - Homeless Link annual conference went international

• Moving together - profile of Move-on protocol project increasing move on for hostel residents

Policy and Research

• Hearts & Minds - Audit Commission report on commissioning the voluntary sector

• Giving to gain - OSW report into homeless people's experiences of volunteering

• Superb skills - government implementation plan to improve adult skills

• Positive mental attitude? - survey on attitudes to mental illness in England

• Exclusion effectiveness - Social Exclusion Task Force developing a code of practice to identify what works for socially excluded people

Briefings

• Street force - Homeless Link summary briefing of JRF report on the impact of enforcement on street users. The latest FEANTSA magazine gives an international perspective.

• Brown briefing - Homeless Link breifing on key government initiatives for the homelessness sector

Consultations

• The Mayor's Draft Housing Strategy launch delayed until September 2007.
• Reducing Health Inequalities - discussion paper on the Mayor's initial thinking for his Health Inequalities Strategy

• Substantial strategy - Home Office consultation on new tackling drugs strategy.

Resources

• Moving training - FREE training available from Broadway's It's Your Move project

• Asylum ASAP - Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP) offer information and assistance on making appeals & co-oridnate the London Destitution Network

• GoldStar - promoting good practice for volunteers from socially excluded groups

• Move-on manual - information for service users moving into the private rented sector

• Off to good start - Starter Packs Association launched to promote development of more schemes

• Mental health awareness training - from the NHS Homelessness Training Unit

Funding

• Open together - phases 3 & 4 of London Councils grants programme are now open.

• IMPACT awards - up to £35 000 for health related projects

• Activating Places of Change - pump priming revenue funding available for HCIP projects

• Reach together - funding for collboration bids from charities working with young people

• RBS Innovate fund - funding for finacial inclusion projects linked to homelessness Deadline 3 September

• Section 64 - Department of Health grants for the volnutary sector. Deadline 15 August.

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