Current category: Housing
26/02/2015
Homelessness Scoping and Mapping Study to Improve the Resettlement of Prisoners Coming Out of Custody.pdf – Feb-2015
This report summarises the finding of work carried out from January to May 2014. It looks at the current arrangements for resettling prison leavers and suggests ways in which prisoner resettlement can be improved with the introduction of Transforming Rehabilitation, the introduction of the Community Rehabilitation Companies and the proposed removal of automatic priority need status for all those found homeless leaving prison.
26/01/2015
Home Improvement Loans Toolkit.pdf – Jan-2015
The Home Improvement Loans Toolkit has been developed to provide information about the scheme and its operation, to support Local Authorities in developing their individual arrangements and to provide an overview of the different types of financial assistance currently offered by Local Authorities in Wales to residential property owners.
26/12/2014
Conwy County Borough Council – Housing Hub.pdf – Dec-2014
Conwy County Borough Council has opened a ‘housing hub’ in Colwyn Bay which co-locates a variety of services to support residents to make housing choices, at the right time, which are right for them. This presentation details the new service and offers food for thought for services across Wales.
25/11/2014
Preparing to Prevent Report – How prepared are local authorities for the homelessness changes?.pdf – Nov-2014
The 'Preparing to Prevent' Report looks at how prepared local authorities in Wales are for the homelessness changes. The Welsh Government’s Housing Act will have significant implications in relation to how local authorities tackle homelessness. With its emphasis on prevention, local authorities will need to ensure their services are structured and modelled appropriately to deliver on preventing homelessness.
22/11/2014
Step by Step Guide – Getting started with your local housing market assessment.pdf – Nov-2014
This guidance supplements the Welsh Government 2006 Local Housing Market Assessment guide. It sets out a quantitative approach to calculating housing need and an assessment of the local housing market, which can be used consistently across local authorities. It aims to help local authorities to undertake their own assessment of the housing market and to provide a starting point on which to build a more sophisticated understanding of their local housing markets.
26/10/2014
Report on support for children in domestic abuse housing related support services.pdf – Oct-2014
This report contains the results and findings of two questionnaires circulated to all DA providers and collected via the regional development coordinators which sought information on children’s provision within refuge and on children’s workers within Domestic Abuse (DA) Services.
26/10/2014
Executive Summary – Assisting those who are homeless or vulnerably housed and have dual diagnosis issues.pdf – Oct-2014
This Executive Summary provides an overarching 'progress report' on the four pilot studies which have been established to develop models of working to improve the outcomes for service users with dual diagnosis issues.
26/02/2014
End of project report private rented sector improvement project.pdf – Feb-2014
The Private Rented Sector Improvement Project was launched in March 2012 by the WLGA, with funding from the Welsh Government. The work was completed in September 2013 and this report details how the project's aims were achieved.
24/02/2014
Annex 1 Dual Diagnosis Kerrigan Project (Bridgend) Evaluation Report.pdf – Feb-2014
This annex should be read in conjunction with the executive summary, 'Developing Good Practice in Assisting those who are homeless or vulnerably housed and have Dual Diagnosis Issues'. The Kerrigan Project looked at developing good practice in assisting those who are homeless or vulnerably housed and have Dual Diagnosis Issues.