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The North West
Homeless Link's work in the North West
Homeless Link's work in the region is focused on improving services for homeless people and particularly on making hostels and other services "Places of Change". Read more
Paul Connery, is the regional manager for the North West. You can email Paul paul.connery@homelesslink.org.uk or call him on 07798 631340.
What's New?
- SNaP - Homeless Link and Resource Information Service research mapping the sector providing services for single people or couples who are homeless in England.
Clean Break
- Clean break - our action research project into drugs and homelessness.
- This research has already provided support to agencies in the South West and the Street Homeless Outreach Team (SHOT) in Exeter have based a training course on the findings to enable agencies to use the toolkit developed by Homeless Link.
Move On
- Move-on plans protocol (MOPP) - The move-on plans protocol project (MOPP) is Homeless Link’s response to the national problem of move-on. An information booklet and toolkit to support the development of the protocol in your area are now available.
- If you would like to use the the MOPP toolkit then your Regional Manager can support you to develop your protocol.
Regional Training Consortia
- Do you find that Homeless Link's scheduled courses are too far to travel to, or beyond your budget? Could Consortium training the answer for you?
Hostels as places of change
Providers from the region have been taking part in events and visits to services to hear about and view best practice in building design and service delivery.
Improving Services by Better Design
The materials and plans from these events are in our new Better services by design pages.
Service User Involvement Network
Free to subscribe to network for agencies across the North of England to share ideas, highlight good practice and promote initiatives and training around the issues surrounding service user involvement
Join Homeless Link
See Homeless Links membership pages to see the benefits of joining Homeless Link along with the membership form.
Further Resources
- See our case study briefings on good practice in meaningful occupation in the North West.
- Helplines and websites For information and advice on a range of issues affecting homelessness.