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Better Together:
partnerships to prevent homelessness and improve outcomes for young people
| Date: | Friday 9 May 2008 |
| Venue: | Park Plaza Victoria London, 239 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1 |
| Ref: | C1664 |
| Fee: | Free of charge |
[Background] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
This conference is sponsored by Communities and Local Government (CLG) and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). The National Youth Homelessness Scheme is a central element in Government plans to take forward commitments to prevent and tackle youth homelessness particularly among 16 and 17 year olds.
2007/08 has been the inaugural year of the National Youth Homelessness Scheme (NYHS). Initiatives have included:
 | launching in October 2007 a web-based knowledge resource for local authorities and their partners at www.communities.gov.uk/youthhomelessness |
| establishing nine local authority centres of excellence to lead regional events and raise awareness of effective working to prevent and tackle youth homelessness (further details of events and activities are on the NYHS website) |
| a programme of small grants to local authorities to enable implementation and testing of improvements in services to young people |
| development of four exemplar Supported Lodgings schemes |
| support and promotion of models of mediation and early prevention work with families |
| a joint project with Department for Children, Schools and Families to develop guidance and reference sites for effective joint working between Children’s Services and Housing teams. |
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Aims
This national conference will explore models of multi-disciplinary, multi-agency working to:
| prevent youth homelessness |
| provide safe, supportive accommodation for homeless young people |
| address the wider needs of such young people to support their transition to sustainable adult life. |
Discussion will focus on local authority Children’s Services and Housing teams working in partnership and drawing in health, youth justice and housing and support providers to achieve
better outcomes for vulnerable young people, including:
| 16 /17 year-olds |
| care leavers |
| children and young people in homeless households. |
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Audience
The conference will be of particular interest to:
| Senior officers and strategists in Local Authority Housing and Children’s Services and Children’s Trusts |
| housing association landlords and third sector providers of care and support for young people |
| accommodation advisers in the youth justice system |
| primary healthcare managers |
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Programme
| 09:45 | Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available) |
| 10:00 | Chair’s welcome Helen Keats, Specialist Adviser (Homelessness), Communities and Local Government |
| 10:05 | New initiatives and new
partnerships in local government Iain Wright MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Homelessness at Communities and Local Government |
| 10:30 | Young people and homelessness
today: the University of York reports on recent research into developments in the last 10 years |
| 11:00 | Tea/coffee break |
| 11:15 | Local joint working: Speakers from local authority Housing Options, Children’s Services, Youth Justice and RSLs share their experience of engaging many local agencies with a single objective |
| 12:30 | Final questions from the morning |
| 12:45 | Lunch and Exhibition time |
| 13:30 | A performance by First Chance Creative Arts Group (young people who have experienced homelessness in Birmingham) |
| 14:00 | Partnerships in practice:
sub-plenary discussions of effective joint working: (Please indicate your first and second choices on the application form) 1. Slow is good: multi-agency working to support appropriate and viable approaches to young people’s housing and support needs before embarking on statutory homelessness 2. Joined-up commissioning of services and delivery locations: developing strategy and practice which put young people at the centre 3. Improving outcomes for young people in (potentially) homeless families: multi-agency working to prevent longer term homelessness and its detrimental effects for young people due to lack of family home |
| 15:15 | Next steps: Review of the day and Chair’s closing remarks |
| 15.30 | Refreshments, exhibition time and departures |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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