Course focus

Structures For Shared Services

Date:
26 April 2012
Venue:
Bevan Brittan LLP, London
CPD:
4.5

Training programmes

The 2nd Annual Hardwicke Social Housing Conference

No one is immune to the threat of homelessness. The streets are home to former businessmen, bus drivers, teachers, carers, fathers and mothers. One man, who regularly used Simon's services, used to be a bomb-disposal expert in Iraq. His story of post traumatic stress, descent into alcoholism to cope, and subsequent loss of relationship, job, and life is depressingly familiar. (Shannon Kyle writing in the "Guardian" in April 2010 about the Simon Community's 2010 research on rough sleepers in London in the early part of 2010)

This conference's theme is homelessness in all its practical and policy forms, and the speakers and participants are:

Conference Chair: Arthur Moore, Barrister Public Law Team, Hardwicke

Homelessness: Not owed the full duty?

The question of a local authority's homelessness duties short of the full housing duties of section 193 Housing Act 1996.

  • 16 & 17 year old applicants
  • Overlap with the Children Act 1989
  • Co-operation between departments: section 213A of the Housing Act 1996

Andy Lane, Barrister Public Law Team, Hardwicke

Appeal-proof decision making: getting vulnerability decisions right

  • The legal concept of vulnerability
  • Update on recent case law
  • Duties and powers of the local authority decision maker
  • Tips for avoiding common pitfalls

Dean Underwood, Barrister Public Law Team, Hardwicke

KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Housing the vulnerable: targets and challenges for the new government
John Bird, Editor In Chief, The Big Issue

Policy watch: where are we now and where are we heading?

  • Emerging government policy on homelessness and meeting housing needs
  • Working with the Housing Benefit changes
  • A cross government approach to tackling homelessness and rough sleeping
  • What will localism mean for you?

Tim Gray, Practitioner Advisor to Communities and Local Government

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