Our online magazine for homelessness professionals. News, opinion and features from Homeless Link and across the sector.
27 Mar 2020 - 2:27pm
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has written to all English local authorities for an update on protecting people sleeping rough during the COVID-19 crisis.
26 Mar 2020 - 9:54am
This emergency appeal for help is for the attention of all London based day centres and drop-in centres.
24 Mar 2020 - 2:53pm
People experiencing homelessness are amongst the most vulnerable to life-threatening COVID-19 and our members are describing crisis conditions in the services dedicated to supporting them. Government must step up now to protect our vital services by...
24 Mar 2020 - 11:49am
The Department of Health and Social Care and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have announced £2.9 billion of funding allocation for local authorities to support vulnerable people, including people who are homeless during the...
19 Mar 2020 - 9:21am
In light of the available evidence on covid-19 and Government advice, Homeless Link has now closed its main office in Aldgate.
18 Mar 2020 - 9:51am
On Tuesday 17 March the Government announced initial emergency funding of £3.2 million to help people who are sleeping rough...
16 Mar 2020 - 6:30pm
On Monday 16 March, the Government...
13 Mar 2020 - 11:02am
Timothy Platt from The Salvation Army calls on the government to rethink how personal service charges are managed for those claiming Universal Credit.
5 Mar 2020 - 5:20pm
UPDATED 23 MARCH 2020
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak presents specific risks to the homelessness sector. The people that our members support are in the high risk group, with long term conditions that mean, should the virus affect a member...
27 Feb 2020 - 10:00am
On 27 February 2020, the Government published the Rough Sleeping Statistics for England in Autumn 2019.