Posted 27.02.17
Evolve Housing & Support: Article link
The Boards of Evolve Housing + Support and Grenfell Housing and Training have approved a proposal to merge the two organisations.
Subject to completion of legal formalities, Grenfell will join Evolve on 1 April 2017. The newly merged organisation will be called Evolve Housing + Support.
With a combined turnover of £12.45 million and working in eight local authorities, the new organisation will be the third largest provider of accommodation for homeless people in London.
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Posted 22.02.17
CRAE: Article link
A group of 26 inspirational children and young people aged eight to twenty years old are launching Change It!, a national campaign on children's rights and homelessness.
The Change It! group, who come from across England, and are supported by the Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE), have developed their unique, child-led campaign after working together on a report on children's rights which they submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Change it! is calling on the Government to listen to the voices of children and young people and to stop breaking the law by housing families in Bed and Breakfast (B&B) accommodation for longer than the legal limit of six weeks.
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Posted 01.02.17
The Passage: Article link
The Passage launches new research into the links between modern slavery and homelessness, commissioned by the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Kevin Hyland OBE.
The report, entitled 'Understanding and Responding to Modern Slavery Within the Homelessness Sector', looks at the experiences of homelessness organisations across England in working with victims of modern slavery who have been homeless.
Drawing on findings from a survey and from semi-structured interviews, the report provides a set of 12 recommendations to encourage the homelessness sector and the modern slavery sector to work more closely together and improve care for victims of modern slavery.