The Best Practice Team is here to support internal Crisis teams and external organisations to set up and develop projects to end homelessness.
Use the fields to search for a project local to you. Please note that different projects will work with different types of people and may not be able help everyone. We suggest you contact them by telephone or email first to check whether they can help you.
Initial thoughts and considerations for local areas with a view to preparing/ redesigning services for the next phase of the pandemic and preventing homelessness
A tool from the Centre for Homelessness Impact. The calculator helps local authorities estimate the costs of moving single people who have been temporarily housed into the private or social rented sector, with appropriate levels of support
Briefing from Local Partnerships & LGA for English local authorities. Covers sourcing accommodation and support, both interim and longer term, and considers how this may be funded within current resources
Guidance and framework from Welsh Government for local authorities and partners. Supports development of phase 2 (transition) plans to move people on from emergency accommodation and transition to rapid rehousing approaches
The Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance, Women’s Aid, the NHF and the CHI, have published advice setting out what providers can do to ensure more empty properties are offered to domestic abuse survivors
There is an opportunity to expand/ develop PRS access schemes for people with a wide range of support needs. These principles are for helping households to access and sustain accommodation in the PRS
Overarching principles and ideas from Crisis to support transition planning. For anyone working in or with a local authority homelessness service (regularly updated)
Practical tool developed by Crisis, Groundswell and Pathway to help local areas “sense-check” their response for people experiencing homelessness
Resources to support consistent and holistic assessments of everyone in local areas, including a strength-based template and data collection tools (process, privacy notice and uniform data fields)
Recommendations from Homeless Link on expanding/ setting up Housing First services as a key part of local transition plans