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• Homelessness guidance and good practice

Housing

Homelessness guidance and good practice

This section provides guidance and good practice on a wide range of topics including: reducing bed and breakfast use, shared outcomes in homelessness, health information sheets and guidance for housing authorities reporting against best value performance indicator 213.

In addition to guidance issued by this Department the following publications have been jointly published with other Government Departments and homelessness stakeholders.

• Getting Through - Access to mental health services for people who are homeless or living in temporary or insecure accommodation: A good practice guide
  Guidance jointly commissioned by the Department of Health and Communities and Local Government, in collaboration with the Care Service Improvement Partnership (a link to this publication is provided on the right hand side of this page). Published January 2007.
• Prevention of Homelessness - The role of health and social care
  Published jointly with the Department of Health and the Housing Learning and Improvement Network, this report highlights ways in which front line health and social care professionals and staff can help to prevent homelessness (a link to this publication is provided on the right hand side of this page). Published May 2007.

In this section

• Homelessness and Health Information Sheets (HIs)

Related publications

• Homelessness code of guidance for local authorities

  • Published: 7 February 2003
  • Site: Housing

• Guidance on Evaluating the Extent of Rough Sleeping

  • Published: 8 March 2007
  • Site: Housing

• Framework for planning and commissioning of services related to health needs of homeless people

  • Published: 23 January 2007
  • Site: Housing

• Hospital Admission and Discharge: People who are homeless or living in temporary or insecure accommodation

  • Published: 8 December 2006
  • Site: Housing

• Options for Setting up a Sanctuary Scheme

  • Published: 19 December 2006
  • Site: Housing

• Tackling Homelessness Amongst Ethnic Minority Households - A Development Guide

  • Published: 5 September 2005
  • Site: Housing

• Homelessness Prevention: A Guide to Good Practice

  • Published: 12 June 2006
  • Site: Housing

• Best Value Performance Indicator 213 Housing Advice Service: Preventing Homelessness

  • Published: N/A
  • Site: Housing

• Hostels Review Toolkit

  • Published: 14 May 2005
  • Site: Housing

• Effective Co-operation in Tackling Homelessness: nomination agreements and exclusion

  • Published: 18 November 2004
  • Site: Housing

• Achieving Positive Shared Outcomes in Health and Homelessness

  • Published: 19 April 2004
  • Site: Housing

• Achieving Positive Outcomes on Homelessness

  • Published: 10 April 2003
  • Site: Housing

• Reducing Bed and Breakfast use and tackling homelessness - What's working: A Good Practice Handbook

  • Published: 1 July 2003
  • Site: Housing

• The Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (England) Order 2003: guidance

  • Published: 22 March 2003
  • Site: Housing

• Homelessness strategies: a good practice handbook

  • Published: N/A
  • Site: Housing

• Drug Services for Homeless People: A Good Practice Handbook

  • Published: 18 December 2002
  • Site: Housing

• Preventing tomorrow's rough sleepers: a good practice handbook

  • Published: 6 September 2001
  • Site: Housing

Archived content

• Families with babies and young children placed in temporary accommodation