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Regular readers of Homeless Link blogs will know that earlier this month, we wrote to the Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment to ask that working with people who have no home is treated as a priority occupation for vaccination, as a matter for urgency. We also asked members to write to their MPs to raise the same issue and many have taken immediate action, including asking their workforce to write to their own MPs.

The Greater London Authority (GLA) has announced £233,000 of funding for frontline organisations to support people sleeping rough in London with accessing immigration advice.

Homeless Link is advocating for roles working with people experiencing homelessness to be treated as a priority occupation for COVID-19 vaccination. Services can help strengthen our call by writing to their local MP.

On 9 September 2021, MHCLG released the latest statutory homelessness statistics, covering the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021. The statutory statistics capture data on everyone who has been assessed under the Homelessness Reduction Act, meaning that since 2018 we have been able to see a much more detailed picture of single homelessness.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced a £3 million grants fund to enable community and faith groups to provide winter services for people sleeping rough in 2021/22.

The government has announced a consultation on the replacement to the vagrancy act. Tell us what you think.

Local Authorities are currently developing plans that will shape homelessness services for the next three years. The voluntary sector can, and should engage now to share best practice and help shape those services.

Everyone In represented the first time that England had attempted a local authority-led universal homelessness response. The results for non-UK national homelessness were remarkable, but the measures were temporary. Now, as winter provision continues and local authorities plan RSI 2022-25, we must galvanise good practice and advocate clearly and consistently for the changes needed.

A new, longer-term Rough Sleeping Initiative round should allow local authorities to embed Housing First as part of a mixed approach to tackling rough sleeping.

New CHAIN rough sleeping figures for quarter 3 of 2021/22 show a 17% fall in people sleeping rough in the capital compared to same quarter in the previous year.

To mark LGBTQI+ history month, CEO at Micro Rainbow Sebastian Rocca writes about why some LGBTQI+ non-UK nationals experience homeless and the best way to provide people with meaningful support.

Homeless Link’s Women’s Homelessness Project is launching a new free pilot aimed at supporting mixed-sex services to improve the way they engage and support women.

In the first of a new series shining a spotlight on Homeless Link’s members, we explore how two organisations are engaging young trans people who experience homelessness.

As storms Eunice and Dudley bring extreme weather across the country, Homeless Link is issuing a ‘Don’t Walk By’ plea to members of the public if they see someone sleeping rough.

The annual counts and estimates data for rough sleeping in England found that 2,440 people slept rough on any given night in 2021, a 9% fall when compared with 2020.

As part of LGBTQ+ history month, Harry Jefferson from Stonewall Housing, writes about the needs of older adults and how services can better support them.

On International Women’s Day, Homeless Link and AVA come to together to ask the question — how can the homelessness sector support women?

Rough sleeping snapshot estimate shows progress, but challenges still ahead to ensure a continued decrease in the numbers of people sleeping rough in England.

Homeless Link is working to deliver the second stage of the No Homeless Veterans campaign alongside the National Housing Federation.

Homeless Link’s Social Investment Fund was created to provide a resource for those working to reduce homelessness in England.