Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Homelessness Prevention Pilot Fund: "Ask & Act"

Currently Closed

‘Ask and Act’ are new duties proposed in the Housing (Scotland) Bill that requires public bodies to ask about a person’s housing situation early—and take action to prevent homelessness before it happens. The Scottish Government’s Homelessness Prevention Pilot Fund (up to £4 million) supports a range of bodies including, local authorities, Health Boards, the police service, registered social landlords, prisons, along with 3rd Sector Organisations experienced in preventing homelessness. The pilots will develop, test, scale and cost the new prevention duties in real-world settings. The fund is being administered by Advice Direct Scotland. It is designed to help public bodies, alongside third sector organisations experienced in preventing homelessness, prepare for and test the practical application of the new prevention duties with a particular focus on how ‘Ask and Act’ can be effectively embedded in day-to-day practice. It will also help relevant bodies and others to scope out the groups most at risk of homelessness, identify resource requirements, and best practice approaches.Examples of the types of approaches the fund will support are:- Early intervention and targeted prevention activity.- Multi-agency approaches to support people navigating housing, healthand social care services.- Partnership models and processes that can be replicated and scaled.- Collaborations involving shared resources, data and transitional orreferred services.- Initiatives that centre people at risk of homelessness and/or people with direct experience of homelessness in the design and delivery of theservice.- Initiatives that target groups at risk of homelessness and critical points- in service pathways that have been identified as leading tohomelessness.

https://funding.scot/funds/a0RP1000007gPCTMA2/homelessness-prevention-pilot-fund-ask-act-

Birdston Regeneration Group SCIO

Membership number 9104
Charity registered in Scotland SC052301

https://scvo.scot/membership/members/9104/birdston-regeneration-group-scio

Ending child poverty: the challenge ahead

SPICe analysis of the latest Scottish Government child poverty statistics.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/ending-child-poverty-the-challenge-ahead

Food and beyond: exploring the foodbank experience

The researchers also caution that while the third sector and Scottish Government may not see foodbanks,The Scottish Government asked us to look at the implications for food policy, but what we found has a

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/food-and-beyond-exploring-the-foodbank-experience

Volunteering for All: national framework

The Volunteering Outcomes Framework was developed over 2018 by the Scottish Government jointly with partners,from the volunteer and community sector, local government and NHS, with academics and social researchers

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/volunteering-for-all-national-framework

Public sector funding of the voluntary sector

Local authorities account for around half of all public sector funding, and Scottish Government accounts,The rest comes from NHS/Health & Social Care Partnerships, UK Government and European funds and Non-departmental

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/public-sector-funding-of-the-voluntary-sector

Life in the UK: Scotland 2024. A measure of Scotland's collective wellbeing

Democratic crisis: Trust in government and politics has reached a record low, with over three quarters,Carnegie UK urges both the London and Edinburgh governments to work on rebuilding public confidence by

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/life-in-the-uk-scotland-2024-a-measure-of-scotlands-collective-wellbeing

Wester Ross Fisheries Trust

Membership number 6277
Charity registered in Scotland SC050755

https://scvo.scot/membership/members/6277/wester-ross-fisheries-trust

The Cost of Living Crisis in Scotland: analytical report

The report has been produced by a cross-government group of analysts.,Despite the UK Government's Energy Price Guarantee, energy prices have more than doubled over the last,year and Scottish Government modelling[2] estimates that there are around 860,000 (35%) fuel-poor households,The UK Government response is insufficient to fully address the harms caused by the cost of living crisis

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/the-cost-of-living-crisis-in-scotland-analytical-report

A Framework to Decide ?What Works? in Prevention Policy

Constitutional Change outline the decision-making processes in prevention policy in a report to the Scottish Government,success and failure in comparable projects. - To a large extent, we can identify a clear Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/a-framework-to-decide-what-works-in-prevention-policy

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