Highlights

On this page you can view and listen to a selection of highlights from Homeless Link's Annual Conference 2008: Connecting with Communities. Below you will find a slideshow of photos taken at the conference and be able to listen to speeches from the people that presented at the event. Transcriptions of the main speeches are also available.

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SLIDESHOW: Audio highlights and photos from the conference


SPEECH: Why communities matter for ending homelessness, Jenny Edwards, Homeless Link

Download a transcript of Jenny Edwards speech here (doc)

SPEECH: A central government perspective on the homelessness sector and their local community, Iain Wright MP, Housing Minister

Download a transcript of Ian Wright's speech here (doc)

SPEECH: View from the communties sector, Carolyn Lambert, Development Trust Association

Download a transcript of Carolyn Lamberts speech here (doc)

Q&A's: Questions addressed to Iain Wright, MP and Carolyn Lambert, Development Trust Association


SPEECH: The Conservative Party’s vision for the future of homelessness services and the communities they work in, Grant Shapps MP, Shadow Housing Minister


SPEECH: Strengthening the fabric of your community, JoAnne Page, The Fortune Society in New York

Download a transcript of JoAnne Page's speech here (doc)

Q&A'S: Questions to Grants Shapps, MP and JoAnne Page, The Fortune Society


PANEL DISCUSSION: Where next - are homeless people going to get a fair deal out of the communities agenda?