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With the weather getting significantly colder, supported accommodation and floating support providers need to take action to ensure the safety and wellbeing of those using their services.

Homeless Link are looking for your ideas for great practice in homelessness that can we can help capture, evaluate and share.

25th November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. At Homeless Link, we reflect on the good practice and resources that can help support your service and develop understanding of these issues further.

Leicestershire County Council have approved a proposal to de-commission its homelessness support contract from March 2024, Homeless Link responds.

The Chancellor finally announced that the LHA rate would be uprated, but punitive welfare measures and no change to the benefit cap means the Autumn Statement was a mixed bag, writes Policy Manager Cat Tottie.

In the 2023 Autumn Statement, the Government announced it was uplifting the LHA rate, which had previouslt been frozen since April 2020.

Read our guest blog about the development of a new resource for the sector: The Safeguarding Toolkit for Multiple Exclusion Homelessness.

Homeless Link has joined a coalition of leading organisations in health and homelessness to issue an urgent open letter, coordinated by Pathway, to the new Home Secretary James Celeverly expressing deep concerns over changes to Home Office practice affecting refugees granted asylum decisions.

Experts at the national Housing First Conference agreed that the approach should be recognised for what it is - a successful intervention for people experiencing complex disadvantage that goes far beyond simply addressing rough sleeping.

The difference between how Housing Benefit and Universal Credit calculate earnings mean some people living in hostels are actually worse off if they find employment. BHT Sussex have launched a campaign to address this.

We're delighted to welcome Spring Housing Association as a new member of Homeless Link!

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have provided an update in ordering Lateral Flow Device (LFD) tests for homelessness settings.

Homeless Link has responded to media reports that the Home Secretary plans to criminalise the use of tents by people forced to sleep rough.

In our latest spotlight on the work of Homeless Link’s Partnership Managers, Ellie Mullin talks about her work across the South East of England to support and improve local partnerships.

As Homeless Link launches its general election campaign 'A Home for Everyone.' Campaigns Manager Nye Jones sets out how its member organisations can get involved.

StreetVet has entered the 4th year in providing its Accredited Hostel Scheme to temporary accommodation providers across the UK. In this guest blog, they reflect on their successes in keeping those experiencing homelessness and their pets together.

Homeless Link proudly celebrates Black History Month, this year we are shining a light on some of the great work our members do for the Black community.

With private rents at record levels, Policy Manager Cat Tottie writes that the Government must raise the Local Housing Allowance rate in the upcoming Autumn Statement.

We call on the Treasury to uplift the LHA rate in the upcoming Autumn Statement

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has awarded funding to 25 homelessness services in Round Two of the Night Shelter Transformation Fund (NSTF).