The isolation felt by homeless people is being highlighted by hard-hitting posters positioned in spots in a UK city where rough sleepers are likely to rest. The posters bear slogans such as “if this were a homeless person, then most people wouldn’t even look down” and “a bad place for a poster, an even worse place for a bed” […]
https://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.png00Jamie Leeminghttps://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.pngJamie Leeming2019-03-12 18:57:022020-02-25 14:42:16Poster Campaign Highlights The Plight Of The Homeless
Liverpool City Council is to receive funding of £9.9m as part of the government’s £450m Local Authority Accelerated Construction (LAAC) programme. The awarded funding will allow up to 1,500 family homes to be built at the Festival Gardens in Liverpool, in bids to tackle the housing crisis, writes Esmee Joinson-Evans at 24housing. The news comes […]
https://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.png00Jamie Leeminghttps://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.pngJamie Leeming2019-03-06 16:55:492020-02-25 14:42:32Funding Boost To Build New Homes On Garden Festival Site
Councils across England have cut by a quarter the amount they are spending on dealing with criminal landlords compared with 2009/10, reports Bill Tanner for 24housing. According to an analysis by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA), whilst spending by local authorities in England on housing standard activities was £44.5m in 2009/10, by 2017/18 that had […]
https://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.png00Jamie Leeminghttps://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.pngJamie Leeming2019-03-06 16:55:142019-03-06 16:55:14Funds To Fight Criminal Landlords Cut By A Quarter
A rough sleeper was threatened with a fine of up to £20,000 for ‘loitering in a public place to the detrimental impact of others’. The man, who has chosen not to be identified, had the notice placed on him by police officers ‘while he slept outside the Palace of Westminster’ reports The Metro. According to […]
https://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.png00Jamie Leeminghttps://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.pngJamie Leeming2019-03-06 16:54:392020-02-25 14:42:56£20,000 Fine For Sleeping Rough!
On Friday 22nd February, our colleagues at New Start, in conjunction with Edge Hill University, hosted an Impact Event – ‘Linking Research with Policy and Practice: Refugee Arrival and Settlement in Liverpool and Glasgow.’ The event was a real success with visitors attending from Liverpool and across the region. There were a number of keynote speakers […]
A kind-hearted mum invited homeless man move in with her and her kids – because she feared he would die in freezing conditions. Irina Zureiqi decided to help Darren Handley, who had been sleeping outside a former bingo hall, in Ashford, Kent, for almost two years after battling mental illness and alcohol addiction for most of […]
https://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.png00Jamie Leeminghttps://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.pngJamie Leeming2019-02-26 17:34:492020-02-25 14:43:28Good Samaritan Takes In Sick Homeless Man
Homeless charities have warned that England is facing a “national emergency”, after it was revealed that the number of homeless people and rough sleepers admitted to hospitals has more than trebled over the last six years. Welfare Weekly reports analysis of NHS data by Mirror Online revealed that 10,259 homeless people in England were admitted to […]
The decision to fine a homeless man for failing to complete his tax return on time has been described as a scandal by a judge, who found he should not be penalised for missing the deadline. According to a report in The Guardian, Krzysztof Pokorowski, a self-employed electrician, faced penalties adding up to £1,600 after […]
https://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.png00Jamie Leeminghttps://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.pngJamie Leeming2019-02-19 11:17:452020-02-25 14:43:50“Scandal” As HMRC Fines A Homeless Man For Failing To File A Tax Return
43,000 people across Wales have been helped to avoid homelessness as councils make the most of additional funds to keep people in in their homes – rather than returning it to Westminster. Statistics from Shelter Cymru show every Welsh council is on track to spend its full amount of Discretionary Housing payment (DHP) funding. One […]
https://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.png00Jamie Leeminghttps://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.pngJamie Leeming2019-02-19 11:17:012019-02-19 11:17:01Shelter Cymru Campaign To Promote Discretionary Housing Payments
A man has been jailed for four months after admitting assaulting two homeless men in a tent in Hull. Jamie Nickell, 26, was filmed on CCTV taking a running jump and landing feet first on their tent on Whitefriargate in November. Nickell, of Goldsmith Walk, Lincoln, pleaded guilty to a single count of assault occasioning […]
https://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.png00Jamie Leeminghttps://seftonsupportedhousing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSHG_Logo_RGB.pngJamie Leeming2019-02-19 11:15:482020-02-25 14:44:15Jailed For Assault On Homeless Men In A Tent
Poster Campaign Highlights The Plight Of The Homeless
/in News /by Jamie LeemingThe isolation felt by homeless people is being highlighted by hard-hitting posters positioned in spots in a UK city where rough sleepers are likely to rest. The posters bear slogans such as “if this were a homeless person, then most people wouldn’t even look down” and “a bad place for a poster, an even worse place for a bed” […]
Funding Boost To Build New Homes On Garden Festival Site
/in News /by Jamie LeemingLiverpool City Council is to receive funding of £9.9m as part of the government’s £450m Local Authority Accelerated Construction (LAAC) programme. The awarded funding will allow up to 1,500 family homes to be built at the Festival Gardens in Liverpool, in bids to tackle the housing crisis, writes Esmee Joinson-Evans at 24housing. The news comes […]
Funds To Fight Criminal Landlords Cut By A Quarter
/in News /by Jamie LeemingCouncils across England have cut by a quarter the amount they are spending on dealing with criminal landlords compared with 2009/10, reports Bill Tanner for 24housing. According to an analysis by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA), whilst spending by local authorities in England on housing standard activities was £44.5m in 2009/10, by 2017/18 that had […]
£20,000 Fine For Sleeping Rough!
/in News /by Jamie LeemingA rough sleeper was threatened with a fine of up to £20,000 for ‘loitering in a public place to the detrimental impact of others’. The man, who has chosen not to be identified, had the notice placed on him by police officers ‘while he slept outside the Palace of Westminster’ reports The Metro. According to […]
New Start Host Regional Refugee Event
/in News /by Jamie LeemingOn Friday 22nd February, our colleagues at New Start, in conjunction with Edge Hill University, hosted an Impact Event – ‘Linking Research with Policy and Practice: Refugee Arrival and Settlement in Liverpool and Glasgow.’ The event was a real success with visitors attending from Liverpool and across the region. There were a number of keynote speakers […]
Good Samaritan Takes In Sick Homeless Man
/in News /by Jamie LeemingA kind-hearted mum invited homeless man move in with her and her kids – because she feared he would die in freezing conditions. Irina Zureiqi decided to help Darren Handley, who had been sleeping outside a former bingo hall, in Ashford, Kent, for almost two years after battling mental illness and alcohol addiction for most of […]
Homelessness Causing “National Emergency” In Our Hospitals
/in News /by Jamie LeemingHomeless charities have warned that England is facing a “national emergency”, after it was revealed that the number of homeless people and rough sleepers admitted to hospitals has more than trebled over the last six years. Welfare Weekly reports analysis of NHS data by Mirror Online revealed that 10,259 homeless people in England were admitted to […]
“Scandal” As HMRC Fines A Homeless Man For Failing To File A Tax Return
/in News /by Jamie LeemingThe decision to fine a homeless man for failing to complete his tax return on time has been described as a scandal by a judge, who found he should not be penalised for missing the deadline. According to a report in The Guardian, Krzysztof Pokorowski, a self-employed electrician, faced penalties adding up to £1,600 after […]
Shelter Cymru Campaign To Promote Discretionary Housing Payments
/in News /by Jamie Leeming43,000 people across Wales have been helped to avoid homelessness as councils make the most of additional funds to keep people in in their homes – rather than returning it to Westminster. Statistics from Shelter Cymru show every Welsh council is on track to spend its full amount of Discretionary Housing payment (DHP) funding. One […]
Jailed For Assault On Homeless Men In A Tent
/in News /by Jamie LeemingA man has been jailed for four months after admitting assaulting two homeless men in a tent in Hull. Jamie Nickell, 26, was filmed on CCTV taking a running jump and landing feet first on their tent on Whitefriargate in November. Nickell, of Goldsmith Walk, Lincoln, pleaded guilty to a single count of assault occasioning […]