Working in Partnership to Tackle Homelessness and Rough Sleeping
Online Event 9 February 2022, 9:00am - 3:00pm
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9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair's Welcome Address
Chris Jenkin, Chair, It Takes a City
9:40am
Keynote Address: Is the Kerslake Commission’s Report on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping the Blueprint to End Street Homelessness for Good?
Steve Douglas CBE, Chief Executive, Mungos
10:00am
Keynote Address: Regional Collaboration to Tackle Homelessness
- The impact of public service collaboration
- Partnership and prevention in the criminal justice system
- How far can partnership take us?
Molly Bishop, Strategic Lead for Homelessness, Public Service Reform Team, Greater Manchester Combined Authority
10:20am
Rethinking Homelessness Prevention To Improve Local Authorities’ Ability To Address The Needs Of Those At Risk Of Homelessness
- Focusing on preventing new individuals becoming homeless and ending homelessness for those already experiencing it
- Examining the results of an online local authority survey looking at five kinds of prevention work – universal, targeted, crisis, emergency and recovery
- Identifying local and national level enablers and barriers to homelessness prevention activity
- Looking at the financial causes of the rise in homelessness such as increased private sector rents and decreased ability to pay higher rents
Neil Morland, Managing Director, Neil Morland & Co Housing
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:05am
Networking Break
11:35am
Case Study: Working In Partnership With A Wide Variety Of Organisations To End Street Homelessness And Reduce Street Based Anti-Social Behaviour
- Moving rough sleepers into accommodation and supporting people with mental and physical health problems to get the medical help they need
- Stopping anti-social behaviour on the streets of Camden through partnership work with Camden Council, the police and other enforcement agencies
- Helping drug and alcohol users to access the treatment they need
- Supporting people who have become street homeless in London who originate from elsewhere to return home in a planned and supported way
- Running a multi-agency building based hub for rough sleepers to access a wide range of support services provided by CGL and other partner organisation
Saul Freeman, Lesley Howard & Andy Lucas - Camden Routes off the Streets (CGL)
11:55am
Case Study: Preventing Homelessness Through Multi-Agency Partnerships
Neil Munslow MBE, Service Manager: Active Inclusion, Newcastle City Council
12:15pm
Case Study: Key Considerations for Developing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy: The Homelessness Transformation Framework
Kath Wallace, Divisional Manager, Commissioning (Prevention, Wellbeing & Social Exclusion), Liverpool City Council
12:35pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:55pm
Lunch and Networking
1:40pm
Keynote Address: Delivering On a National Housing First Programme for People Facing Multiple Disadvantage
- What is Housing First? The Principles and how it differs from other housing led approaches
- Challenges to delivering (and commissioning) high-fidelity Housing First – learning from the Pilots and beyond
- Bringing health and justice around the table
- The path to delivering on a national programme for Housing First
Fiona Colley, Director of Social Change, Homeless Link
2:00pm
Case Study: Breaking Down Barriers To Access Private Rented Accommodation To Tackle Homelessness
- Helpful services for tenants and landlords can aid homelessness prevention
- Challenging the perceptions that exist amongst landlords and letting agents to housing people on benefits
- Partnership working and private rented access schemes to increase the use of private rented accommodation for people on benefits
- Offering a range of support services for tenants and landlords to make a tenancy more manageable and sustainable
Andrew Beeput, Chief Executive Officer, The Bond Board
2:20pm
Case Study: Routes Out of Homelessness - Engaging and Working with Communities
- Louis Sargent, Policy Lead, Rail Affordability, Rail Strategy, Department for Transport
- Jasmine Morris, Senior Partnerships Manager, Shelter
- Kathleen O'Malley, Social Performance Manager, Network Rail
- Paul Green, Vulnerability and Safeguarding Practitioner, Rail Delivery Group
2:40pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:00pm
Chair's Summary and Close