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Older People's Housing Strategy - focus on prevention - 7 March 2008
The CLG housing strategy for older people 'Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods' focuses on preventing older homelessness - but does not address resettlement or suitable move-on accommodation.
New and improved Coalition website - 6 March 2008
New design improves site accessibility.
Auditing the older homeless population - 31 January 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...
Mayor of London’s Older Peoples Strategy addresses - 21 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 - 20 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 - 28 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 - 26 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 - 20 June 2006
Care Services
Ivan 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 - 20 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 - 14 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 - 30 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 - 26 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 - 4 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 - 21 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 - 18 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 - 16 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 - 21 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 - 5 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 - 8 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 - 3 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...
Government rejects Select Committee recommendation on older people - 15 March 2005
The Government has made it's formal response to the Select Committee report on homelessness. One of the recommendations of the report was that all elderly people should be accepted as in priority need without having to prove vulnerability. The UK Coa...
New five year homelessness strategy - 15 March 2005
The ODPM yesterday (14 March 2005) launched its five-year strategy which recognises that "homelessness has no place in a sustainable community, and our aim should be to eradicate it."
The strategy emphasises prevention and working across agen...
Older Excluded People - 15 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...
Housing with care for older homeless people: examples wanted ! - 24 February 2005
Extra-care housing is the new approach for older people with care needs. It is being promoted by government through the Department of Health’s Housing LINs (Learning and Improvement Networks) – but is this model available to older homeless people?...
Groundbreaking research reveals the key issues facing hostels in the 21st century - 22 February 2005
London's leading providers of services to single homeless people have teamed up to determine the key issues facing the capital's hostels in the early 21st century.
The Pan London Providers Group - comprising the chief executives of the seven...
Homeless Sector Day Centres Provide Crucial Support to Older Vulnerable Housed People - 22 February 2005
Day centres for homeless people are providing crucial support to help older vulnerable people who are housed sustain their tenancies, according to new research by Maureen Crane and Tony Warnes at the University of Sheffield.
Many housed users of the da...
Meeting on older homeless people and hostels - 16 February 2005
Next Meeting of the UK Coalition on Older Homelessness
9th March 05 Homeless Link office 11am to 3pm
The next meeting of the UK Coalition on Older Homelessness, will be in the form of a seminar on older homeless people and hostels. Maureen Crane...
Select committee calls for an eradication of homelessness - 1 February 2005
The cross party ODPM Select Committee on Homelessness published it's report and recommendations on 27th January 2005 last week following hearings and consideration of evidence at the end of last year.
The report admonishes the government for an emb...
New DH funding - Partnership for Older Peoples Projects - 13 January 2005
During the first quarter of 2005, the Department of Health will invite councils to apply for funding to set up pilot projects in partnership with the NHS and other organisations. An underlying principle is that healthcare organisations are full partners...
