"Cost of housing homeless people in temporary accommodation soars to £2.8bn" www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

We're hiring!📣 We're looking for a Team Leader of the CSE Service (maternity cover)! Line manage the staff of the Young People’s Team and oversee the delivery of 1:1 and group-based support to young people in our service. Apply now: buff.ly/Kt0fuqF #Leeds #Charity

New NAO report finds the cost of a place in a children's care home has nearly doubled in 5 years. The biggest private providers make average annual profits of 22.6%, many backed by private equity. And many children aren't getting what they need, placed far from home, in unlawful settings

*NEWS* - Finance Director position available - please share this post. Our FD Alan is retiring, so there is an exciting opportunity to work at @turninglivesaround.bsky.social with me! www.turninglivesaround.co.uk/job-vacancies/ #finance #accounting #ukhousing #charity #homelessness #Leeds

Sign our national petition calling on the government to protect the independence of local voices in health and care. We ask for your support: Keep independent services that give the public a voice in NHS and Social Care petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... #ProtectIndependentVoice #YourVoice

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that. Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

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Like reading blogs? I've written one here about how #innovation in #housing can help solve #homelessness. I'd love to hear your feedback. Have a great weekend! www.turninglivesaround.co.uk/news-events/...

People are supporting our brilliant trustee, Mike White, as he does the #Leeds #Ironman in aid of Turning Lives Around (TLA). Good luck, Mike, and thanks for helping TLA! #homelessness Donate here [and/or please repost this post]: localgiving.org/fundraising/...

Rising needs and complexity; rising hope in the sector that we can work together to reduce #homelessness. It was good to chair the #Homelessness Prevention Forum this morning with passionate colleagues talking about women's rough sleeping, sport, and partnership work with Leeds City Council.

Packed room for the Third Sector Partnership meeting with Leeds City Council. Surprising for an in-person on a Monday morning? Not really when you know how passionate VCSE partners are and how willing LCC colleagues are to work together to serve the residents of #Leeds.

Hearing from Ed Whiting at the Third Sector Health and Care Leaders network meeting. It's a tough picture this year but he has optimism for Leeds City Council over the next 5-10 years. He's praising third sector partners; we are all keen to work together to serve the residents of #Leeds

Good panel discussion at this #Leeds Marmot city event. Dean Matheson talking about the need for long-term commitment across the city if we are going to tackle structural racism

One year into the Labour government, this is a useful tool to cut through the noise of the partisan press and track what they have achieved, are on track with, or are not on track with: fullfact.org/government-t...

Yesterday @worldhabitat.bsky.social hosted an inspiring conference on homelessness and affordability. It was great to catch up with so many Oak partners who were speaking or attending. Congratulations to World Habitat on 40 years of the World Habitat Awards!

Some thoughts on Reeves' big affordable housing announcements. Tl;dr - yes it is good news (and a pleasent surprise), but let's not get carried away: peteapps.substack.com/p/yes-it-act...

Today, we’ve announced £39bn of investment in a new 10-year affordable homes programme alongside a 10-year rent settlement. Boosting investment and providing certainty to deliver on our promise of the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation.

@kwajo.bsky.social is rousing the room with his story of lived experience of #homelessness, and challenging us to ask the hard questions at the @worldhabitat.bsky.social conference today.

📢Good news: The 200-year-old Vagrancy Act is finally to be repealed, meaning rough sleeping will no longer be treated as a crime in England & Wales. CIH have long called for an approach that tackles the root causes of homelessness—not punishes people for it. This is a welcome & long overdue change🧵⬇️

At this West Yorkshire workshop we're discussing how to share data, be flexible and improve relationships to house and support people who are #homeless

Fantastic news St Petrocs pick up the @homelesslink.bsky.social Award for Workforce Development. St Petrocs continually work to build the evidence-based professional practice of the team to work in ways that end people's homelessness for good; at the same time as embedding a truly values-led culture

Tomorrow's Government Spending Review can be the moment we start to Break the Cycle of rising homelessness. The Chancellor must take this opportunity to invest in the expertise of frontline services & deliver for people affected by homelessness. homeless.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

Cuckooing, or home invasion, is when criminals take over a vulnerable adult's home for criminal activities. Learn to spot the signs, understand how it impacts people, and gain tools to respond in this training event. Few spaces left: buff.ly/BSnavY6

Great that Rachel Reeves visited us at @turninglivesaround.bsky.social today. We had a good talk about our services, the challenges we face and how the government can help us. I'm confident there will be good news for the #homelessness sector in the spending review next week.

300 #homelessness professionals in the room for the @homelesslink.bsky.social Summer Conference. The theme of the opening session is optimism. We all need to have hope that things can improve. #underoneroof

Our CEO @steve-hoey.bsky.social explains how short-term funding arrangements affect our ability to plan ahead. Thanks to @insidehousing.bsky.social for highlighting our work and dilemmas. www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/the-car...

I like the C&R Trust, but the wording on this ad may need altering... Made me smile so I couldn't resist sharing!

We're delighted to have been awarded new contracts to continue delivering our Sustain & Woodside services in the Wakefield District @mywakefield.bsky.social for at least 2 years from April 2025! www.turninglivesaround.co.uk/news-events/...

Nice article in South Leeds Life about our newly opened scheme for young rough sleepers at @turninglivesaround.bsky.social here : southleedslife.com/first-young-... #homelessness #Leeds

Our Senior Property Manager, Ian Atkinson, is taking on the Leeds Half Marathon to raise funds for improving facilities for the people we support. Please get behind him! localgiving.org/fundraising/...

Good to hear from Annie and Amber about the work of @basisyorkshire.bsky.social at the #Homelessness Prevention Forum this morning

Nice article in South Leeds Life about our newly opened scheme for young rough sleepers at @turninglivesaround.bsky.social here : southleedslife.com/first-young-... #homelessness #Leeds

Great news that all our contracts in #Leeds and #Wakefield have been renewed for 3 years. Thanks to Alex Sobel and the government, and to our commissioners at LCC and WFC. We will continue to support over 1200 people each year. #homelessness #ukhousing southleedslife.com/housing-supp...

Good to join a panel of speakers at today’s #HomelessLinkConf with the timely theme of “from crisis to prevention”. As part of the Mayor of @london.gov.uk’s mission to end rough sleeping in London by 2030 we will have a much greater focus on prevention.

Talking #homelessness prevention with Chris Keating of Connection Support at #HomelessLinkConf. Homelessness is largely predictable: childhood poverty and trauma are big factors. There has been a shocking 60% increase in children being separated from parents. We need more upstream prevention.

In September 2024, a large number of frontline workers from different Leeds based organisations took part in the 2nd Leeds Women’s Rough Sleeping Census, facilitated and coordinated by Basis Yorkshire. Find out more: basisyorkshire.org.uk/general-news...

Good to hear from Jessica Turtle, Co-Founder of @ourmoh.bsky.social Museum of #homelessness talking about her own lived experience of surviving trauma, and the importance of love in prevention and crisis intervention

Tom Copley @tomcopley.bsky.social is talking about the ambition to end rough sleeping in London by 2030 at #HomelessLinkConf

Now hearing from @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social the #Homelessness Minister at #HomelessLinkConf about the crucial work that @homelesslink.bsky.social members do.

I'm at the Rough Sleeping #HomelessLinkConf in London. #homelessness

Last week we completed another successful session at The Climbing Lab with our Welcome to Leeds clients 🧗 We ensure newly arrived asylum seekers have access to activities that support socialisation, and wellbeing through our Welcome to Leeds project, and look forward to sessions like these! 🤩

Grassroots football clubs and youth teams are to hold a minute's silence this weekend in memory of a 10-year-old girl who was fatally struck by a car on a sports pitch. #Poppy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This International Women's Day #IWD #IWD2025 I want to pay tribute to all of the amazing women who work at @TLivesAround and throughout the #homelessness sector. You are passionate, compassionate and inspiring.

Shocking? Not really. Public sector forced to play by the rules of the market when it's the only option left. "London councils buy £140m of property to move homeless people out of city" www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #homelessness #ukhousing #housing #localgov

Today is International Women's Day!✊ Through improving wellbeing, we want to empower women. This week for our drop-in, we celebrated the occasion by holding a winter wellbeing session with bingo, bracelet making, afternoon tea, sexual health testing and blood pressure checks. #IWD

Well this isn't great news. Welfare spending to be cut by billions?: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...