News and Updates
June 5, 2025
Collaboration, innovation, and adaptation: Early lessons from Individual Placement and Support
Laura Dunbar, Senior Research Executive at IFF Research, shares their early lessons from the IPS project which is part of the Test & Learn programme.
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June 2, 2025
The role of relational systems to prevent homelessness in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Ben Tomlin from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, writes about the impact of relational services and behaviour change which can improve outcomes in people’s lives more broadly to avert the flow of people who experience homelessness.
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May 23, 2025
Learning from Giants: Towards Pan-Approaches to Tackling Homelessness in London and Other Megacities
Ligia Teixeira delves into the critical question of how London, a global hub grappling with a profound homelessness crisis, can draw invaluable lessons from the diverse experiences of its counterparts.
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May 22, 2025
From Jet Engines to Homelessness: Using Virtual Labs to Rethink Homelessness Interventions
Professor Patrick Fowler is using a virtual laboratory, originally inspired by jet engine testing, to model England’s homelessness system, helping policymakers understand how different interventions could improve outcomes and prevent rough sleeping.
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May 16, 2025
Reimagining the future: catalysing a prevention turn
The old ways of working, which are reactive, fragmented, crisis-driven, are proving even less sufficient than before, argues Ligia Teixeira. Our next chapter must be to catalyse a decisive shift away from responding to homelessness and towards prevention
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May 15, 2025
Comparative Optimism and Why it Matters in Tackling Homelessness
Our colleague Emily-Rae highlights the UK’s comparatively progressive homelessness policies, emphasising the power of optimism in combating burnout and driving reform. She argues that evidence-based hope is essential to sustaining frontline workers and implementing systemic change.
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May 14, 2025
Hotel Homeless: The Scouse single mums trapped in Liverpool's housing crisis
This article by Liam Thorpe, Political Editor for the Liverpool Echo and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, reports on mothers experiencing homelessness, living in limbo in a city hotel.
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May 14, 2025
How many toddlers and babies are living in temporary accommodation in the UK?
This article by Katharine Swindells, Deputy Features Editor for Inside Housing and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, reports on the numbers of children living in temporary accommodation in the UK.
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