Webinar: Homelessness Prevention Practice in Health & Social Care (Practitioners)

Crisis, Cyrenians & the Scottish Frontline Network will be hosting a webinar session exploring existing homelessness prevention practice within the health and social care sectors. 

1.30pm - 4pm 
Monday 14 November 2022
Online

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The Scottish Government plans to introduce new homelessness prevention duties as part of a forthcoming housing bill. The new duties will allow people to get help earlier – up to six months before they are at risk of homelessness – and require public bodies to ask about someone’s housing situation and then act to get them help if needed.

At this homelessness prevention webinar we want to:

• Share examples of existing practice & approaches within the health sector 
• Learn more about new or innovative prevention practice in your area 
• Understand what changes are needed to enable earlier intervention and better joint-working practice in anticipation of new duties on public bodies to prevent homelessness

We would particularly like to hear from: 

• GP Practice staff (Including Community Link Workers and other embedded advice staff)
• Social workers
• Social Care Workers
• Occupational Therapists
• Health Visitors  
• Hospital-based Staff (Such as Accident & Emergency staff, Administration/Discharge staff, Navigators/Peer Support workers)
• Local Authority Homelessness/Housing Staff (Particularly those who liaise with social work/health professionals to support clients who are homeless/at risk of homelessness)
• Third sector organisations working in partnership with health and social care services.