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	News Index - articles 1 to 20 of 26    [more] Hospital Discharge and Older Homeless People - 1st September 2003 A report published by Help the Aged and hact urges health and social care agencies to work closely with housing and homelessness organisations to ensure that older homeless people are properly linked to community services. 'The discharge of older... Old Before Our Time - 7th July 2003 The Salvation Army report, 'Old Before Our Time', funded by Help the Aged and hact, looks at the resettlement of older homeless people in Bristol and identifies the help and support they need to integrate into the community. For a copy of th... Homelessness Strategies and Older People - 21st May 2003 The UK Coalition on Older Homelessness is pressing for the needs of older homeless people to be integrated into local authority homelessness strategies. Local authorities are required to develop strategies as part of their obligations under the Homelessne... Sheltered housing: a solution to older homelessness? - 10th May 2003 The Help the Aged report ‘Sheltered housing and the resettlement of older homeless people’ argues that sheltered housing may off a solution to many older homeless people. It provides independence but at the same time offers a level of support that increas... Resettling older homeless people - 16th April 2003 ‘Resettling Older Homeless People’ is a longitudinal study looking at the resettlement outcomes of 64 older homeless people living in London, Leeds and Sheffield. Surprisingly it’s the first study in the UK to look at resettlement outcomes over a two-year... Preparing Older People's Strategies: Linking Housing to Health, Social Care and Other Local Strategies - 1st April 2003 This guidance document is designed to complement the 2002/03 guidance on producing effective housing strategies and plans produced by the Chartered Institute of Housing on behalf of the then DTLR in March 2002: http://www.housing.odpm.gov.uk. It’s... ‘Supporting People’ may threaten the future of homelessness projects - 21st March 2003 The Guardian examines fears that rather than extending services for homeless people ’Supporting People’ may in fact threaten the existence of many schemes. See news item at: http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialexclusion/story/0,11499,916794,00.html... Westminster Council to end soup runs - 21st March 2003 Westminster Council is to abolish 100 schemes designed to feed homeless people in Central London. Shelter has criticised the move because they argue that there are not enough specialist services to help vulnerable homeless people sleeping rough. See news... Homelessness (Scotland) Act 2003 - 13th March 2003 The Scotland Parliament passed the “Homelessness (Scotland) Act” on 5th March 2003. It is intended that by 2012 everyone who is homeless will be entitled to permanent accommodation regardless of 'intentionally'. Shelter Scotland said the legisla... Evictions policies creating homelessness – Citizen Advice (1) - 13th March 2003 A survey conducted by Citizen Advice showed that thousands of people face homelessness due to social landlords (RSLs) being too quick to force eviction. The number of possession orders given by RSLs landlords is increasing by 12 % a year. A copy of the re... Evictions policies create homelessness – Shelter (2) - 13th March 2003 Shelter says it wants to see an end to record levels of eviction and court action due to rent arrears. Full details are contained in the Shelter report ‘House Keeping’ at: http://www.shelter.org.uk/media/housekeeping/... Government crack down on begging - 13th March 2003 Government measures to tackle anti-social behaviour are to target people begging on the streets. However, homelessness lobbyists insist that there are insufficient hostel places to meet the demands of rough sleepers forced to beg. Details of the initiativ... Housing Advice - Housing Associations Charitable Trust (HACT) Grant Programme - 13th March 2003 Criteria for the current HACT grant programme includes preventing homelessness and alleviating poor or inappropriate housing conditions by improving access to appropriate advice and advocacy and the active involvement of older people. For further details... St.Mungo’s target older rough sleepers in Outer London boroughs - 13th March 2003 St.Mungo's, with support from Help the Aged are making contact with older rough sleepers in Outer London boroughs. The aim is to help older rough sleepers access local services and to assist councils in properly addressing their needs. For further de... Surviving at the Margins - 10th March 2003 Older homelessness programme evaluation... The Face of Older Homelessness - 14th February 2003 Report on older homelessness in Ireland... Social networks and homelessness - 13th February 2003 Discusses the importance of social networks to homeless people... Homelessness hostels to close - 13th February 2003 Glasgow City Council to close hostels... Housing Advice and Older People - 13th February 2003 Housing advice and the prevention of older homelessness... The harassment and abuse of older people in the private rented sector - 13th February 2003 Harassment and abuse of older private tenants... Related Websites Homeless Link (News) For further information please contact: Joe Oldman, Secretary to the UK Coalition on Older Homelessness. or complete our feedback form .
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