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Sefton Supported Housing Group (SSHG) is a consortium of five organisations that have joined forces to tackle homelessness in the borough.
Bosco Society Ltd, Venus, Excel Housing, Light for Life and New Start have the contract from Sefton Council to deliver supported housing to homeless people in Sefton.
You can find about more about the work the consortium will be doing, and the member organisations involved, on the other pages of this website.
Andy Burnham Starts With Vow To End Rough Sleeping. Here’s How He Aims To Do It
/in News /by Jamie LeemingThe new Prime Minister also told crowds outside 10 Downing Street he would set out a 10-year plan for Britain and make imminent cost of living announcements in a push for ‘more preventative state’, reports the Big Issue. New Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said his first action in 10 Downing Street will be to […]
Can Andy Burnham Really End Rough Sleeping?
/in News /by Jamie LeemingOutreach workers on the frontline of England’s homelessness crisis react to PM’s flagship policy pledge, reports The Guardian. It is close to midnight as two outreach workers from Spear, a homelessness charity in south London, shine their torches around bushes on the edge of a park in Twickenham. Suddenly they alight on an array of […]
Homeless People Face ‘Postcode Lottery’ Of Support Leaving Them At Risk In Heatwaves
/in News /by Jamie LeemingThe Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) is meant to keep homeless people safe when the weather poses a threat to life on the street. Big Issue teamed up with the Pavement magazine to investigate how councils responded to recent heatwaves. A joint investigation by Big Issue and the Pavement magazine has uncovered major inconsistencies in […]
Calls For Radical Action As Homelessness In England May Rise 25% By 2030
/in News /by Jamie LeemingReport warns an additional 50,000 people could be added to current record figure without bold policies, reports The Guardian. Andy Burnham has been warned that an additional 50,000 people in England will become homeless in the next four years without a radical “housing first” agenda of government. The incoming prime minister’s leadership team is understood […]