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	News Index - articles 1 to 20 of 56    [more] Auditing the older homeless population - 21st June 2007 One of the concerns of the UK Coalition on Older Homelessness is that the needs of older homeless people are not appearing in older people's housing strategies or homelessness strategies and their needs will not be taken into account in strategic pla... Housing Strategy for an Ageing Population - 1st May 2007 The CLG are currently producing a national housing strategy for an ageing population. The Coalition on Older Homelessness has consulted it's members and sent in a list of priorities that we would like to see included in relation to older homeless peo... Mayor of London’s Older Peoples Strategy addresses - 21st September 2006 The Mayor of London’s Older Peoples Strategy was launched earlier this month. The Coalition on Older Homelessness welcomes the strategy and in particular is pleased to note that there is now an action point in the plan stating:‘The Mayor will consider t... Reaching Out - An action plan on Social Exclusion - 20th September 2006 The government has recently launched ‘Reaching Out - An Action plan on social exclusion. This policy document addresses social exclusion as a whole and has sections on early years, children and teenagers and adults. Homeless Link is very pleased to see ad... Day time activities provide tangible benefits - 28th July 2006 Help the Aged has published two new reports looking at the benefits of day time activities or ‘meaningful occupation’ for vulnerable and homeless older people. ‘Live Choices’ discusses the experiences and views of older people who used the Live Choices pr... Overview of older people's housing issues - 26th July 2006 Help the Aged has published a useful overview of current housing issues affecting older people. It includes a short section on older homelessness and invites feedback and comment. If you have any comments complete the feedback form on the right hand side... Policy News - 20th June 2006 Care ServicesIvan Lewis is the new minister for Care Services. Since he came into post he has announced guidance on the new role of Director of Adult Social Services. A commitment to creating this role was earlier signalled in the white paper ‘Our H... Prevention of Homelessness - 20th June 2006 Prevention of homelessness is at the forefront of the government agenda. There have been concerns expressed in the voluntary sector that, due to the pressure to reduce numbers of homelessness applications, some local authorities have created additiona... Coalition on Older Homelessness responds to Supporting People Consultation - 14th March 2006 The UK Coalition on Older Homelessness made a specific response to the ODPM consultation on Supporting People, raising the issues that are particularly relevant to the older homeless population. Our response was linked to the response done by Homeless Lin... Towards an older people's strategy for London - Coalition response - 30th January 2006 The Coalition on Older Homelessness has produced a draft response to the GLA document 'Towards an older people's strategy for London'. Particular issues we have picked up on which are of importance to older homeless people are:* The gap... SOCIAL EXCLUSION UNIT HIGHLIGHTS THE PLIGHT OF HOMELESS OLDER PEOPLE - 26th January 2006 Homeless Link today praised the Social Exclusion Unit for highlighting the plight of homeless and vulnerably housed older people through the publication of its report “A sure start to later life – ending inequalities for older people”. Homeless Link’... Report shows homeless people need access to intermediate care - 4th January 2006 A report, 'The Road to Recovery' of a feasibility study carried out in Lambeth makes a powerful case for the need for improved discharge from hospital for people who are homeless and facilities for them to recover in that are more suitable than... Launch of draft London older people's strategy - 21st November 2005 The launch of the draft Older People's Strategy for London marks the beginnning of a three month consultation period ending at the beginning of February. The mayor is prioritising four areas for action * challenging the negative perceptions of ol... Funding for free face to face debt advice - 18th October 2005 The DTI have announced £45m funding programme for free face to face debt advice. The aim of the programme is to deliver an increased number of advisers and of hours of advice within geographical areas and or social groups characterised by high finan... Supporting People Local Connection Policies to be scrapped - 16th August 2005 Evidence from Homeless Link member agencies and in reports to the ODPM showed that a growing number of local authorities are restricting access to hostels for homeless people by applying local connection criteria. This has left homeless people on the stre... Coalition response to Green Paper on the future of Adult Social Care - 21st July 2005 The Coalition has made a response to the government green paper 'Independence, Well-being and Choice' on the future of social care for adults in England. We have picked up on the issues relevant to older homeless people and made the case for thi... Coalition responds to report on Excluded Older People - 5th July 2005 The UK Coalition on Older Homelessness made a response to the Social Exclusion Unit interim report 'Excluded Older People'. Our response was discussed at the May meeting of the Coalition and makes specific recommendations around the prevention... Extra care Housing Models and Older Homeless People - 8th June 2005 A new factsheet has just been published relating to the needs of older homeless people. It explores the role of extra care housing models, intermediate care and hospital discharge arrangements in providing and accessing housing care and support for older... A Vision for Older People's Services - 3rd June 2005 The 20/20 Project is a collaboration involving the support of ERoSH, Elderly Accommodation Counsel, Association of Social Alarms Providers, Centre for Sheltered Housing Studies, Association of Retirement Housing Managers, Federation of Black Housing Organ... Older Excluded People - 15th March 2005 The Social Exclusion Unit have today (15th March 2005) published their interim report on Excluded Older People. It identifies three main areas to progress: · early support and preventative services, rather than crisis interventions when actio... Related Websites Homeless Link (News) For further information please contact: Sarah Gorton, UK Coalition on Older Homelessness Project Co-ordinator. or complete our feedback form .
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