So many policy types pitching up here, we were always gonna need a bigger starter pack.
So here is UK Public Policy Starter Pack #2 - another set of top think tankers, policy analysts and commentators to follow if you fancy…
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Such hope. As ever his cuteness was rewarded with titbits.
It’s impossible to think seriously about ending homelessness without addressing immigration policies designed to cause destitution.
70 homelessness and migrant organisations came together to back this policy paper from Homeless Link and NACCOM.
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Whilst we get to grips with Bluesky and think about how we best use the platform to support the homelessness sector, why not sign-up to News and Updates, our fortnightly bulletin for the sector?
homeless.org.uk/email-sign-up/
As I head to Liverpool for Labour Party Conference I’m looking for 3 things - hope, ideas and connections. If you’re coming too look out for me and say hi!
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Stanley is celebrating international dog day in the Wye Valley.
Great explainer of homelessness law. Homeless Link’s voluntary sector member organisations are often working with those the law deems “ineligible” or not “in priority need” for support. People who have nowhere else to turn.
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We are the national membership charity for organisations working directly with people who become homeless in England. We work to make services better and campaign for policy change that will help end ...
As I head to Liverpool for Labour Party Conference what am I hoping to find there? Most of all I’m hoping for hope! With the bleak economic picture and…
The OG is below. Slightly embarrassingly, it appears one must be part of one’s own starter pack, so I appear in each but you are under no obligation…
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I suppose, thinking about it, I should probably do a quick explainer for new followers as to just how mind-bogglingly awful English homelessness law is (different in Scotland and Wales), because few people outside the sector (unless they've been through it) really have a clue... 1/
Nearly Legal
Suitable accommodation under section 190 Housing Act 1996 - little caselaw, as TA for intentionally homeless is often only a a couple of weeks, but here a JR decision on unsuitability of B&B accommodation for household of 2 adults & 2 children with health issues nearlylegal.co.uk/2024/08/suit...
ZRR, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Bexley (2024) EWHC 2073 (Admin) This was a judicial review of Bexley’s contention that temporary accommodation offered to ZRR under s.190 Housing Act...
It’s so annoying that Americans have the colours the wrong way round on their political parties, having to spend all that time translating “red state” in my head
