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Policy and information

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This section gives details of Homeless Link's policy, research and and campaigns work towards our goal of ending homelessness. It also contains other information you may need to help us achieve this.


Our End Homelessness website includes an action paper, which sets out how we can make homelessness history by 2022.


What's new in the policy and information section?

  • Homeless Health Needs Audit Homeless Link is delighted to have received funding from the Department of Health's Third Sector Investment Programme to deliver a project to improve access to healthcare for homeless people. The project will develop an audit tool which will enable homelessness agencies to evidence the health needs of their clients to better inform commissioning of future services, through local strategies such as the Local Area Agreement (LAA) and Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNAs). To read more about this project, read our Health Needs Project FAQs.

  • Emergency Accommodation: A survey of provision in areas with no direct access hostel This report is based on interviews with 145 local authorities across the country and is available to download on our project page.

  • Survey of Needs and Provision 2009 Homeless Link published the first Survey of Needs and Provision (SNAP) in February 2008. This 2009 report provides an updated picture of the extent and nature of services for single homeless people and couples without dependent children in England, and the clients that use them.

  • Final report on our action plan to reduce rough sleeping among Central and Eastern Europeans in London This report provides a summary of this progress, looks at what has been achieved and makes some suggestions for where further work is needed.


  • Welfare Reform Green Paper - Homeless Link has responded to the Welfare Reform Green Paper No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility Our response includes a map of the services that homeless people need to help them on their journey to employment and outlines three key things that DWP must consider as they implement their welfare reforms. Earlier, we produced an overview of the Green Paper for the National Advisory Council and Homeless Link members. Both responses can be accessed from our consultations page page

  • Experiences of Commissioning - An online survey of Homeless Link member organisations. The survey asked about the type of experience (whether positive, negative or mixed) that people have had of thirteen aspects of the commissioning process, and what evidence they could provide on these issues.

  • Internal Review of Housing Benefit - Homeless Link has written to Stephen Timms MP on the internal review of housing benefit currently being undertaken by the Department for Work and Pensions.



Toolkits and audit tools

  • Clean break: integrated housing and care pathways for homeless drug users - Findings from our action research project, practical solutions and a useful online Clean Break toolkit for commissioners, service providers and leads on drugs and housing services.



How to find the information you need

Facts and figures

Issues

Briefings

Areas of work

Publications

 
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