The All in For Change team of people with personal and professional experience of homelessness is touring Scotland again to find out what’s happening on the ground in services — against a backdrop of unprecedented housing pressures. The Change team will hold free events in Aberdeen, Greenock, Falkirk, Kirkcaldy and…
Homeless Network Scotland’s chief executive Maggie Brunjes, and Prof Andrea E Williamson from the University of Glasgow co-authored an editorial in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published this month. It highlights the stubborn collective consciousness that continues to divorce homelessness from the larger health and economic inequality that causes it…
A coalition of experts has called on local and national government to adopt a groundbreaking new tool created to measure progress being made towards ending homelessness in Scotland. The Ending Homelessness Together Monitor is designed to report on indicators that reflect the entwined and predictable causes of homelessness including poverty,…
The Ending Homelessness Together Monitor The Measuring Impact Task and Finish Group was appointed by the Scottish Government and COSLA Homelessness Prevention and Strategy Group. The purpose of the short-life group was to deliver an outcome focused framework that can measure the impact of the Ending Homelessness Together plan. The…
A coalition of organisations including the Everyone Home collective has urged the Scottish Government to use the budget to address a growing housing and homelessness emergency. Forty organisations wrote an open letter to Finance Secretary Shona Robison calling for urgent support to address an “escalating homelessness crisis”. They warn that…