Co-Production
Resources
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Commissioning Homelessness Services: Building Good Practice
Insights from discussions held within our Commissioners' Forum Community of Practice series, covering five good practice areas: co-production, addressing the increasing complexity of need of service users, finding buildings for services, substance misuse in commissioned services, and the impact of the Supported Housing (Regulation and Oversight) Act on commissioning.
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Commissioning homelessness services
This guide describes and gives good practice examples and approaches at each stage of the commissioning cycle, specifically for commissioning homelessness services.
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Housing First fidelity assurance framework
This framework contains two self-reflection tools designed to support fidelity to the principles of Housing First in England.
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Involving and recruiting people with lived experience
These two briefings aim to help homelessness services to employ people with lived experience in the most constructive way possible that mutually benefits both the employer and employee.
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Co-Production Toolkit
A suite of resources to support co-production.
News
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Homeless Link partners with Sheffield City Council to strengthen homelessness prevention across the city
Homeless Link is delighted to announce a new partnership that aims to strengthen homelessness prevention and rough sleeping support across Sheffield.
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Co-creating a set of Good Practice Principles for Day Services
Co-creation should be at the heart of practice development. With that in mind, over the past year, Homeless Link in partnership with Expert Link and Housing Justice has worked with over 35 different services to produce a set of good practice principles for Day Services. Developing the principles in a collaborative way involved 7 months of consultation and discussion including 10 service visits, 3 focus group and 3 co-creation sessions.
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Theatre as an approach to participation and catalyst for change
Reflections on Groundswell's Legislative Theatre project in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Instability caused by short-term funding could lead to service user crisis of trust
The current homelessness funding system risks ruining our bond with clients and volunteers, write Michael Chandler of Groundswell as part of the Reset Homelessness campaign.
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Co-production in action in Luton
To celebrate Co-production Week, Matthew Bushnell from Mary Seacole Housing Association shares the experience of co-production in Luton where experts by experience, commissioners and service providers have been working together to support the Local Authority to draft a new strengths-based specification for their commissioned housing-related support services.
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Creating pet-inclusive services: supporting people and their pets
A free webinar for frontline homelessness services exploring why pet-inclusive approaches matter, the challenges faced by people with pets, and practical steps services can take to become more welcoming and supportive.
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Preventing Refugee Homelessness: Practice Forum for Local Authorities and their partners
Come along to this interactive practice forum and learn more about how you can apply support people moving on from asylum accommodation.
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Outreach contact and support training
This training aims to help outreach workers deliver effective support interventions and achieve positive outcomes for people sleeping rough.
Online Members £145pp, Non-Members £185pp -
Commissioning homelessness services training
This course will provide an introduction to commissioning homelessness services and explore what is considered good practice in commissioning.
Online Members £91pp, Non-Members £131pp -
Reflective Practice and resilience for frontline staff
For all frontline staff who are looking to build on their resilience and reduce the negative impact of stress in the workplace.
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Anti-social behaviour: management and prevention
Develop your understanding of what is available to prevent and tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB) including how to empower clients to manage their behaviour and acquire skills for social living.
Online Members £145pp, Non-Members £185pp