Our consortium colleagues at New Start are seeking to employ a Weekend Support Practitioner to provide support to homeless people with some complex needs. New Start’s Adult Services comprise of a range of supported accommodation projects across the Liverpool area in which structured, housing-related support is facilitated by Keyworkers, running parallel with service user tenancies. This […]
Gusts of up to 80mph will batter Ireland, with warnings that it could pose a ‘danger to life’ with a Met Office spokesman warning Ophelia has ‘the potential to cause more devastation than any storm we’ve ever had’. Rough sleepers are being offered beds for the night as Ireland faces its worst storm in 56 […]
A report by the Local Government Association (LGA) found that the demand for help has increased by 130% in eight years and predicts the rate will double by 2025. People over the age of 60 are now twice as likely to register with local councils as homeless than they were seven years ago, with the […]
A major independent report into rough sleeping in Liverpool calls for a change in legislation that prevents people from claiming support. As well as calling on the Government to urgently review how those with no address can claim benefits, the ‘Routes out of Rough Sleeping’ report also identifies failings within the health service to meet the […]
More than 21,000 homeless people have been admitted to hospital with problems relating to drink and drugs over the past three years. A BBC investigation found the number of people of no fixed abode admitted for drug addiction increased by about a quarter between 2014 and 2016. The government said the issue was “complex” with […]
The founder of The Big Issue says that homelessness in the UK has reached a state of emergency. Lord John Bird, 71, said that UK Governments have wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds to prolong poverty, rather than working to prevent it. The social entrepreneur and homelessness activist says that we’re sleepwalking straight into a […]
A cold weather shelter for rough sleepers in Liverpool city centre could save lives this winter, a police superintendent says. Liverpool City Council wants to use the ground floor of a building in Camden Street, off London Road, as a severe weather night facility for homeless people between October and March. The council has applied […]
A new report reveals that one in five young people in the UK have sofa-surfed in the past year – and almost half of them have done so for more than a month. London Assembly housing committee’s report on hidden homeless sheds light an issue that is invisible to most of the public and by many […]
Homeless patients are being urged to seek treatment at ten GP practices in Greater Manchester rather than hospital A&E departments. Contrary to popular belief, patients do not need identification or proof of address be seen by a GP, but some homeless people claim they have been turned away. So practices in Manchester, Oldham, Bury, Bolton […]
Counselling may help you overcome some common fears, says Jo Kenyon at Venus. Jo says that whilst this particular case relates to a person who had a terrible fear of birds, (which is called “Ornithophobia” if you’re interested!) counselling may be helpful to address a whole range of different issues. Jo adds: Before I tell […]
