by Policy | Dec 23, 2022 | News
Homeless Connect, the representative body for the homelessness sector in Northern Ireland, has welcomed the news that the Supporting People Programme budget will receive an uplift in this financial year for the first time since 2007.[1] The Supporting People programme...
by Policy | Dec 16, 2022 | News
Homeless Connect has made a submission to the Housing Executive’s consultation on their Draft Corporate Plan for 2022 to 2025. The Corporate Plan is an important strategic document for the Housing Executive, outlining what they plan to do as an organisation over...
by Policy | Dec 12, 2022 | News
Homeless Connect has submitted its response to the Electoral Office’s consultation on its revised 2022 to 2027 Equality Action Plan. The short submission focuses on the needs of people experiencing homelessness in terms of the electoral process. It makes three...
by Policy | Nov 8, 2022 | News
This afternoon at the Assembly the All Party Group on Homelessness held its latest meeting. The APG heard from David Polley, Director of Housing Supply Policy in the Department for Communities, and Billy Crawford, Head of Homelessness Branch at the Department. David...
by Niall Bakewell | Sep 15, 2022 | News
This morning the Department for Communities published the latest edition of the homelessness bulletin for January to June 2022. The statistics make for grim reading. Here are the headlines: During this period 8120 households presented as homeless. This was an increase...
