Event: Housing Support Enablement Unit – Funding and Impact

Join the Housing Support Enablement Unit at its next in person event in Edinburgh on 5 March to discuss the strategic importance and delivery of housing support.

This networking event will be an opportunity to consider the housing support funding landscape, identify key challenges and pragmatic responses, and share aspirations for the next government. We will listen to your reflections on the housing emergency ahead of a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, offering a link between provider organisations and the Scottish Government.

Share learning with fellow provider organisations and hear case studies of how organisations have responded to funding challenges.

To register your interest via Eventbrite, click here. Lunch will be provided from 12:45-13:15. 

Agenda:

10:30 - Welcome and introductions, Rachel Cackett, CCPS

10:40 - Housing support finance and Scottish Government strategies, Yvette Burgess, Unit Director HSEU

11:10 - Demonstrating costs benefits - how can the work of the CaCHE report be used to evidence cost and benefit of other services? Heather Lawson, Impact Lead, HACT

11:30 - Funding challenges - table top discussions

12:00 - Feedback

12:15 - Housing Benefit and Supported Housing, Jackie Fowler, Housing Policy Division, Department for Work and Pensions

12:45 - Lunch

13:15 - Responses to funding challenges - a panel discussion

• Jennifer Wallace, Trust Housing Association
• Bryan Davies, Scottish Borders Council
• Esther Wilson, Hanover Scotland
• Des McCart, Healthcare Improvement Scotland
• Lorraine McGrath, Simon Community Scotland

14:15 - Sustainability - table top discussions

14:45 - Summing up - Rachel Cackett, CEO CCPS

15:00 - Close