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Suzannah Young
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Policy Leader at National Housing Federation. Views my own. Repost not endorsement. May contain tea. #SupportedHousing #OlderPeoplesHousing #StartsAtHome #EndHomelessness #Healthandhousing
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@mel-williams.bsky.social and Sarah McClinton, both past Presidents of ADASS, join @impower.bsky.social
for a session on how councils can replace siloed services with a more inclusive, lifelong approach to supporting young people into adulthood.

#ncasc25
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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A tomorrow's Autumn Budget, we are asking Chancellor Rachel Reeves to save our supported housing with emergency funding – ensuring that families just like Mawushi's have the support they need to live independently.

🔗Read Mawushi's full story here: startsathome.org.uk/stories/mawu...
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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We warmly welcome the news that, for the first time, housing status has been included in @nhsengland.bsky.social's Statement of Information on Health Inequalities, setting out what information Trusts and Integrated Care Boards should collect to meet their equalities duties.
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Two-thirds of councils in England have not prosecuted a single landlord in the past three years

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68939
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Our latest survey of Directors of adult social services, published today, shows that high-cost social care for young adults has risen by almost a third in the past year.

Read the report: adass.org.uk/documents/ad...

#AutumnSurvey2025 #AutumnBudget2025 #NCASC2025
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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See our Breaking the Cycle report more more measures the Government could embrace to end the current emergency and start building a country free from homelessness. homeless.org.uk/what-we-do/c...
Breaking the Cycle
Homeless Link's campaign for a funding system fit to end homelessness
homeless.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Out today, @pathwayuk.bsky.social's annual report shines a light on the huge achievements of the NHS hospital homelessness teams supported through our Pathway Partnership Programme (PPP) 👇
tinyurl.com/j2wes7xp
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Councils need to invest in supported housing as well as general needs social housing to cut the temporary accommodation bill. Decommissioning supported housing is a false economy www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/council... @insidehousing.bsky.social
Councils’ temporary accommodation bill to reach £3bn by end of decade, LGA finds
English councils’ spending on temporary accommodation is likely to reach £3bn by the end of the decade, the Local Government Association has found.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
23,500 young people facing homelessness this winter in worsening crisis, warns leading charity via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... The article shows how important #supportedhousing is to help young people make the transition to adulthood, and avoid homelessness
Thousands of young people face homelessness this winter as crisis worsens
The North West and Yorkshire and the Humber are among the worst affected places as homelessness is set to rise this season
www.independent.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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‪Public Law Project‬
‪@publiclawproject.bsky.social‬
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🚨 New research: DWP sanctions are counterproductive 🚨

Our study with the Central England Law Centre reveals that #UniversalCredit sanctions fail on their own terms and causes serious hardship.

publiclawproject.org.uk/latest/sanct...
Sanctionable Failures: Universal Credit’s failing sanctions regime and the harm it causes - Public Law Project
New research shows that the Universal Credit sanctions system fails on its own terms
publiclawproject.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
"Adopting a whole housing approach for those fleeing domestic abuse is essential. We need more #supportedhousing schemes that recognise that healing and rebuilding a life requires more than just a roof overhead." Important point from @paulabarkermp.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Today West Streeting recommitted to plans made earlier in the year to abolish NHS England (NHSE). This plan will now move forward, following arrangements made with the Treasury.

Find out more about what the dismantling of NHSE might mean. https://bit.ly/49OiQ7K
The Reshaping Of NHS National Bodies Has Only Just Started. How Will It Finish? | The King's Fund
Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🔴 Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Pat McFadden MP is making a statement: Pensions update.

Watch live ⬇️
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Supported housing transforms lives whilst taking pressure off the public purse.

We need to see investment in supported housing at the Autumn Budget, with long-term funding in the government's housing strategy and homelessness strategy.

A great piece from Home Group👇
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
💯#Supportedhousing takes pressure off statutory services and saves taxpayers £3.5bn per year www.housing.org.uk/resources/th...
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM