Working in Partnership to Tackle Homelessness and Rough Sleeping 2023
Online Conference 5 April 2023, 9:00am - 3:00pm
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
9:40am
Best of Intentions: How Homelessness Support Can Be Discriminatory
Dr Edith England, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Practice, Cardiff Metropolitan University
10:00am
Keynote Address: Understanding And Homelessness Within The UK
- Understanding the scale of the challenge concerning homelessness
- Recognising the social, physical and mental impact of homelessness and why it must be addressed
- Learning what more can be done by individuals and organisations to help
Alex Phillips, Head of Public Affairs, The Big Issue Group
10:20am
Change Grow Live and The Manchester Street Engagement Hub: Creating Partnerships To Address Homelessness
- Change Grow Live – Demonstrating Examples of great practice happening nationally.
- Explaining The Manchester Street Engagement Hub
- The history, the partnerships and what’s next for Manchester.
Lesley Howard, National Homelessness Lead, and Jackie McVan, Greater Manchester Head of Services, Change Grow Live
10:40am
Question And Answer Session
11:00am
Break and Networking
11:30am
The Role of the Voluntary Sector in Preventing Homelessness
Jo Ikhelef, Chief Executive, Enfield Voluntary Action (EVA)
11:50am
Case Study: Are Universities Doing Enough for Homelessness?
- We face a crisis in student housing, with more unstable student accommodation and higher risks of homelessness in UK cities
- Universities must collect better data and conduct research to quantify homelessness and insecure housing among students and understand its causes and solutions
- Universities have more to contribute towards ending homelessness with causal research and evidence-led teaching in many degree courses
- As civic institutions, universities should use their convening power and roles as employers and landowners to prevent homelessness in their communities
Greg Hurst, Head of Communications & Public Affairs, Centre For Homelessness Impact
12:10pm
Ways of Supporting Rough Sleepers in a World with COVID
- How has accommodation and support changed for rough sleepers in Fenland since the COVID lockdowns?
- How has the rough sleeping population changed in Fenland since the COVID lockdowns?
- The Issue of No Recourse to public funding clients and refugees – how are we going to support them?
Keith Smith, Director, Ferry Project
12:30pm
Question And Answer Session
12:50pm
Lunch And Networking
1:40pm
Keynote Address: Alleviating Child Homelessness In The UK
- Brief policy overview and prevalence of child homelessness- global, national, and local level.
- What the evidence shows from mixed-methods studies.
- The TA Standards Framework, the gold standard, sets better minimum standards for temporary accommodation nationally. Its purpose, development, and implementation at the local level.
Diana Margot Rosenthal, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
2:10pm
Case Study: The Relationship Between Homelessness and Mortality
Dr Victoria Cooper, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, The Open University
2:40pm
Question And Answer Session
3:00pm
Chair’s Summary And Close