Homelessness Prevention Task and Finish Group: final report and recommendations

Stakeholder sessions

As a central strand of the Task and Finish Group work, Crisis and Cyrenians ran three stakeholder engagement sessions, exploring homelessness prevention, focusing on health and social care services, justice services and preventing homelessness for children, families and young people. The purpose of the sessions was to raise awareness of new proposed duties to prevent homelessness across public bodies in Scotland; to share examples of existing good practice; and to collect feedback from frontline workers on what the “Ask” and “Act” duties might look like in their specific roles.

The three stakeholder sessions were attended by 126 frontline workers, from both statutory services and the third sector. Attendees included health visitors, community link workers, nurses, healthcare support workers, housing officers, prison officers, offenders’ outcomes officers, community justice coordinators, social workers, police officers, Housing First key workers, advocacy, outreach and support workers.