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GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
Damian McGowanManaging Director, Gowrie Care
Board of Directors, Glasgow Homelessness Network
04 October 2011
A Mandate & an Audit
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
The Mandate
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
• Represents a position shared by a group of 21 voluntary organisations, locally and nationally;
• We are organisations bringing forward a homelessness, not an anti-cuts, agenda;
• We are addressing the Big Questions for homelessness in Glasgow considered at last year’s conference;
• Our approach is innovative, evidence-based, solutions focused and aims to assist Glasgow to meet the 2012 target;
• We work to ensure the views of people affected by homelessness are considered within the current debate.
2012 Mandate
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
Reflecting
That we record the key learning from the last decade of homelessness investment, so that mistakes are never repeated and next steps are progressive
Consenting
That cross-sector consensus is reached on a current profile of homelessness and rough sleeping - and a definition of service quality - that informs policy and spending decisions
Predicting
That spending decisions are risk assessed for impact on services and service users. That we statistically forecast homelessness and set prevention and reduction targets
Participating
That the next phase in tackling homelessness is truly collaborative and co-produced by people living, working and using services in Glasgow
Our 4 Point Mandate:
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
Crossreach Glasgow City Mission Glasgow Council for the Voluntary
Sector Glasgow Homelessness Network Glasgow Rent Deposit and Support
Scheme Glasgow Simon Community Glasgow Women’s Aid Govan Law Centre Gowrie Care Harmony Employment Impact Arts
Lodging House Mission Marie Trust Penumbra SAY Women Scottish Council for Single
Homeless Scottish Churches Housing Action Scottish Refugee Council Shelter Scotland Southside Housing Association Unity Enterprise
Mandate Signatories(to date)
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
The Audit … (A decade of progress?)
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
“Those who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it”
(George Santayana)
“History is a vast early warning system”(Norman Cousins)
Reflecting…
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
Important that Glasgow
critically reviews and records:
• The progress we have made
• The mistakes we have made
• The key learning that should inform future decisions
Reflecting…
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
• 10 year audit of homelessness in Glasgow carried out by the Homelessness Mandate Steering Group
• Aims to consider the impact of key legislative, policy and practice changes
• Aims to consider the impact of the significant investment in homelessness
• Aims to consider how to use the learning to inform funding and policy decisions in the coming period
The Audit
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
Key Events 2000-2011: Homelessness in Glasgow
Winter Initiative
Prevention of Homelessness Guidance (SG)
Homelessness StrategyHomelessness Strategy
Housing Stock Transfer
Glasgow Homelessness Partnership
Hostel Closure & Reprovisioning
Regulation & Inspection
Health & Homelessness Standards
Supporting People
Homelessness etc (Scotland) Act 2003
Housing (Scotland) Act 2001
Homelessness Task Force
Rough Sleeping Initiative (RSI)
Housing (Scotland) Act 2010
Hunter Street Health Centre Opens
HIA Pilot
Asylum Dispersal
New Futures (Employability)
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
• We have legislation that is viewed as the most progressive in Europe … but not all of it has been (or will be) implemented or felt on the ground;
• Rough sleeping reduced by 50% during the period of targeted investment… but rose again when ring fencing was removed;
• Hostel closure was positively evaluated in terms of the outcomes for former residents … but there are recurring challenges in finding temporary accommodation for all homeless applicants;
• The number of homelessness presentations dropped in the city in 2010-11 … but we still receive almost 10,500 presentations, the highest in Scotland.
What Difference?
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
Our PledgesWe invite you to work with us to create a series
of pledges that can serve as a multi-agency ‘treaty’ to guide the decisions of the future…
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
For example:
Glasgow will not build or re-commission large scale hostels.
Glasgow will adopt a cross sector approach to measuring rough sleeping.
Glasgow will use a consistent approach to needs assessment.
Our Pledges
GHN is a voluntary and membership organisation working with and for people affected by homelessness. We connect knowledge and expertise to improve policy, practice and perceptions on homelessness.
striving to end homelessness:and improve options for people in housing crisis
For tackling homelessness:
• Determine 2 key successes that you would pledge we keep doing?
• Determine 2 of Glasgow’s key mistakes that you would pledge we learn from?
Our question to you…