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Everyone’s business: Preventing homelessness
through legal duties
Grant Campbell, Director, Crisis in Scotland
Tuesday 25 February 2020
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Ending Homelessness Together Action Plan:
“We will work with public bodies, housing providers and other partners to develop a new duty on local
authorities, wider public bodies and delivery partners for the prevention of homelessness.”
Scottish Government / CoSLA, 2018
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Prevention Review Group: The task
“The working group will:
• develop recommendations to the Scottish Government for a legal duty or duties on Scottish local authorities and wider public bodies to prevent homelessness.
• provide advice on how to ensure the recommendations are successfully implemented in the context of wider reforms to homelessness provision in Scotland”
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A new typology of homelessness prevention
Universal prevention – across the population at large
Targeted prevention – upstream prevention focussed on high risk groups
Crisis prevention – preventing homelessness likely to occur within 56 days
(in line with legislation on ‘threatened with homelessness’)
Emergency prevention – those at immediate risk, especially sleeping
rough
Recovery prevention – prevention of repeat homelessness
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A new typology of homelessness prevention
Universal prevention – across the population at large
Targeted prevention – upstream prevention focussed on high risk groups
Crisis prevention – preventing homelessness likely to occur within 56 days
(in line with legislation on ‘threatened with homelessness’)
Emergency prevention – those at immediate risk, especially sleeping
rough
Recovery prevention – prevention of repeat homelessness
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Membership
• Chair: Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Heriot-Watt University
• Cllr Elena Whitham, East Ayrshire Council / Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
• John Mills, Fife Council / Association of Local Authority Chief Housing Officers
• Susanne Millar, Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership
• Kathy Cameron, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
• Ruth Whatling, Scottish Government
• Professor Tom Mullen, University of Glasgow
• Sally Thomas, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
• Callum Chomczuk, Chartered Institute of Housing
• Matthew Downie, Crisis
• Gordon MacRae, Shelter Scotland
• Maggie-Ann Brunjes, Homeless Network Scotland
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Consultation: Housing &
homelessness
Review group
meeting
Review group
meeting
Review group
meeting
Review group
meeting
Review group
meeting
Review group
meeting
Review group
meeting
Consultation: Housing &
homelessness
Consultation: Housing &
homelessness
Stakeholder consultation:
Housing & homelessness
Stakeholder consultation:
Health & social care
Stakeholder consultation:
Criminal justice and
prison leavers
Stakeholder consultation:
Domestic abuse
Stakeholder consultation:
Children, young people
& families
Publish final
report
Draft final
report
Prevention Commission(Lived & frontline experience)
Joint meeting
with review group
(date TBC)
November December January February March April May June
Joint meeting
with review group
(date TBC)
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Something to bear in mind…
HOMELESSNESS
HOMELESSNESS
Home at risk
Unstable housing
Transitioning between accommodation
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Where have we got to so far?
Local authorities
• Clear up current legal confusion on what homelessness prevented looks like
• Local authorities to prevent homelessness much earlier (before the current 56 days requirement, possibly six months before lose housing?)
• Clear set of steps local authority might take to prevent homelessness
• Rehouse people into a wide range of housing options (not just social or private tenancy)
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Where have we got to so far? Other public bodies – in development
Health and social care
• No discharge from hospital into homelessness
• Health services to ask about housing situation from the outset
• Making sure health and social care services are accessible to people with complex needs
Criminal justice
• Duty on prisons and police to “ask and act” about housing need
• Requirement for housing advice connected to prisons and courts
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What’s next?
• Consulting with stakeholders on domestic abuse (early March)
• Consulting on duties around children, young people and families
• Further conversations with health and social care
• Bringing together all the recommendations and considering what legislation might look like in reality
• Final report June
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Over to you!
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• What do you think of where we’ve got to?
• What would be needed from health and social care services to make sure that people at risk of homelessness get the support they need? e.g.
• People with mental health issues
• People with substance misuse issues
• People leaving hospital
• How could legal duties make a difference?
• What could other public bodies do to help prevent homelessness, e.g. police, housing associations, youth services?
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Thank you
https://www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homelessness/scotland-prevention-review-group/