Welcome
Sefton Supported Housing Group (SSHG) is a consortium of four organisations that have joined forces to tackle homelessness in the borough.
Bosco Society Ltd, Venus, Excel Housing and New Start have won a five-year contract from Sefton Council to deliver supported housing to homeless people in Sefton.
You can find about more about the work the consortium will be doing, and the member organisations involved, on the other pages of this website.
Everton Fans Help The Homeless
/in News /by Jamie LeemingRough sleepers are being helped to stay warm this winter thanks to the efforts of Everton fans, reports the Liverpool Echo. The club’s LGBT+ supporters group, Rainbow Toffees, set out to help the homeless by providing them with beanies over the winter months. The group, which aims to help tackle homophobia in football, took on […]
COVID Vaccinations For The Homeless And Front Line Workers
/in News /by Jamie LeemingEarlier this month, Homeless Link wrote to the Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment to ask that working with people who have no home is treated as a priority occupation for vaccination, as a matter for urgency. They also asked members to write to their MPs to raise the same issue and many have taken immediate […]
Government Strategy On Rough Sleeping ‘Out Of Step’
/in News /by Jamie LeemingThe government must review its strategy to end rough sleeping in England by 2024 after coronavirus showed it to be “out of step”, a watchdog warned. A National Audit Office report praised the ‘Everyone In’ scheme, which housed about 33,000 people in the crisis. But the plan highlighted issues with the current strategy – with […]
Oldham To Prioritise Homeless For Covid-19 Vaccine
/in News /by Jamie LeemingThe local authority plans to move homeless people up the pecking order to receive the vital jab – despite Government guidance. Leaders in Oldham will have become the first in the UK to give homeless people priority access to the Covid-19 vaccine after the local council defied Government guidance to offer out jabs, reports the Big […]