Homeless Network Scotland

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Five new directors and trustees who collectively have a wealth of diverse expertise across housing and homelessness, the wider third sector and local and national government have been appointed by Homeless Network Scotland. They join a board of nine who are at the forefront of progressing the action

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Delegates at Scotland’s annual homelessness conference will be tasked this year with creating a route map out of the housing and homelessness emergency.  The focus of Right Here, Right Now is what action taken now can ease the escalating crisis and what needs to happen next to create a be

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Homeless Network Scotland's chief executive Maggie Brünjes responds to new figures that revealed a record-breaking 10,110 children are living in homeless accommodation and an increase in the number of homeless applications. The annual homelessness statistics released yesterday by the Scottish G

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A major new test of change has been launched to explore how to break down barriers to support faced by tens of thousands of people in Scotland who face multiple disadvantages – with their experience made worse by unequal access to help. No Wrong Door Scotland will draw on a wide range of profe

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An innovative project which will involve people with lived experience of homelessness to help shape the support they receive has started in Inverclyde. The council’s Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is one of the first in Scotland to work with the charity Homeless Network Scotland on

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Homeless Network Scotland (HNS) has appointed Mhairi Snowden who will take up the post of head of policy and programmes in September. Mhairi joins HNS from the Human Rights Consortium Scotland, where she was eirector, and has a distinguished record of work across public life in Scotland and across t

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Being able to control where we live, seen as a key factor in our personal wellbeing and in living our life the way we want to, is being compromised by the housing emergency, especially for those in temporary and shared forms of accommodation, experts have warned.

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A team of experts with personal and professional experience of homelessness is touring Scotland to find out what’s happening in services against a backdrop of unprecedented housing pressures. The All in For Change team will hold free events in Aberdeen, Greenock, Falkirk, Kirkcaldy and Clydeba

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Maggie Brünjes, chief executive of Homeless Network Scotland, on the long-term impacts of short-term decisions on housing and what needs to happen now to make 2024 count. Imagine there was enough decent and affordable housing for everyone in Scotland in the places we want to build and live our

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