Homelessness

More emergency beds will be available this winter to support people off the streets after the Scottish Government committed £370,000 of extra funding to third sector organisations and local authorities to support vulnerable people this winter. In the face of particularly high demand, funding will b

Rough sleeping prevention and a shift towards rapid rehousing are among the key aims of a new Scottish Government action plan to bring an end to homelessness in Scotland. The Ending Homelessness Together Action Plan sets out measures for national and local government and the third sector who provide

Grant Campbell Grant Campbell has been appointed as the new Skylight director for Crisis in Edinburgh. Grant has been the chief executive of Glasgow City Mission since 2013 and will take up the position in March 2019.

Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling have been selected to lead the Scottish Government’s three-year Housing First Pathfinder programme, Scotland’s inaugural ‘Housing First’ Summit will hear tomorrow. With the aim of ending rough sleeping in Scotland for good, the Housing First

Following the release of a new I-SPHERE report examining temporary accommodation provision in Scotland, Beth Watts picks out some of the key themes from the research. This week, Scottish Government will publish a plan seeking to end homelessness in Scotland. This ambition, announced last year, saw t

Josh Littlejohn MBE launching last year's sleep out event One of Scotland’s leading philanthropists hopes to harness the Christmas spirit to mobilise Dundonians in the fight against homelessness.

In a week where the Scottish Government prepares to publish its action plan on tackling homelessness, a cross-party group of MSPs has called for the introduction of a seven-day limit for B&B use as temporary accommodation. In a letter to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the MSPs suggest changing

The City of Edinburgh Council breached housing legislation 466 times in the last year by placing homeless families in bed and breakfast (B&B) accommodation for more than the seven-day legal limit, it has been revealed. Current laws dictate that local authorities should only place homeless famili

National homelessness charity Bethany Christian Trust is giving festive shoppers the opportunity to buy a bed for people who are homeless this winter by purchasing a Christmas Gift Voucher for its Edinburgh-based Winter Care Shelter. The Care Shelter Christmas Gift Vouchers, which cost £21 each, ar

A household lost their home every 18 minutes in Scotland last year and homelessness applications rose for the first time in nine years, a new report has found. New analysis from Shelter Scotland revealed that around 43,000 people, including children, became homeless in the last year.

Lorraine McGrath, Simon Community Scotland and Streetwork CEO, with housing minister Kevin Stewart MSP and British Transport Police officers Homelessness charity Simon Community Scotland and Streetwork launched a hypothermia awareness campaign yesterday with the help of housing minister Kevin Stewar

Cllr Louise Laing Actions to end homelessness and rough sleeping in Moray have been agreed.

Simon Community Scotland staff and volunteers Brian Gallacher and Jamie Hughes A homelessness charity is asking the Scottish public to help its staff and volunteers save lives this winter, by looking out for the symptoms of hypothermia in rough sleepers and people on the street.

Angus Council has approved a new plan which will ensure people who experience homelessness can access housing quickly and with the right level of support. The Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan (RRTP) is a five-year plan which aims to address homelessness more proactively by focusing on prevention, mov

The Social Bite Village in Granton is to provide a blueprint for helping to tackle homelessness in major cities across the UK. The development, which provides homes to people while they await permanent accommodation, officially launched in May this year and is already almost at capacity, with 17 hom