Homelessness

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A significant investment has been agreed to help tackle homelessness in South Lanarkshire. The project will turn a vacant building in Hamilton into 15 temporary ‘First Stop’ housing units, meaning fewer people will be put up in expensive and unsuitable bed and breakfast accommodation.

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Cyrenians Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution (SCCR) has launched a new online resource aimed at supporting parents and carers to manage and reduce family conflict, one of the leading causes of youth homelessness in Scotland. The new Learning Zone for Parents and Carers is now live on the SCCR w

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Fife Council is making progress on reducing the use of private accommodation as temporary housing, councillors heard yesterday. The local authority declared a Housing Emergency on 21st March last year.

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Marking today’s anniversary of the declaration of a housing emergency in Scotland, the Everyone Home collective has criticised failures over the last year and is calling on all political parties to commit to concrete action with one year to go until the Holyrood election. Today, we stand at a

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A partnership programme to help prevent people from becoming homeless has been launched by the social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville.  The £1 million Upstream Homelessness Prevention Fund will bring together Registered Social Landlords (RSLs), third sector organisations, commun

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