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Places of Change in the West Midlands
Homeless Link's regional workers are dedicated to promoting the "Places of Change" agenda. This means encouraging and helping hostels and other homelessness services to focus on helping homeless people, particulaly those with a history of rough sleeping, move forward with their lives. It is about improving the infrastructure and fabric of buildings, but also changing the way that services work with people; - providing opportunities for meaningful occupation, training and employment and involving people in running services.
Neelam Sunder is the Regional Manager for the West Midlands. Neelam.Sunder@homelesslink.org.uk mobile 07887 848562.
Read more about Homeless Link's regional development work. Places of change, a series of articles in Connect Magazine, describes the work of Homeless Link's Regional workers.
What's New?
- Caroline Flint announces a further £9.6 million to change homeless hostels into Places of Change
- On 20 March 2008 Caroline Flint announced how £70 million will be allocated through the Communities and Local Government's Places of Change agenda to 69 homeless projects across England.
Hostels as Places of Change
The Governments' Homelessness and Housing Support Directorate has published a Places of Change booklet that describes the vision and showcases best practice from around the country.
Places of Change events
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 the places of change events are in our new Better services by design pages.