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The Senedd has given Stage 4 approval to landmark homelessness legislation that campaigners say has the potential to transform how Wales prevents and tackles homelessness. The Homelessness and Social Housing Allocations (Wales) Bill includes the abolition of ‘priority need’ and… Read more »
New legislation being introduced in the Senedd this week aims to transform our response to homelessness in Wales. The Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill will fundamentally change our homelessness system, says the Welsh Government, so that it is… Read more »
Welsh Government has published a long-awaited White Paper setting out a ‘progressive path towards achieving housing adequacy for the people of Wales’. But the consultation document falls short of what campaigners had hoped would be support for incorporating a right… Read more »
Blue Light Card, the discount provider for the emergency services, NHS, social care sector and armed forces personnel, is expanding to include the homelessness workforce. As part of Blue Light Card’s ongoing commitment to social care, which is now one… Read more »
A new report by two charities reveals the scale of homelessness in Wales, with one in every 215 households now living in temporary accommodation. The number of households living in temporary accommodation increased by 18 per cent in the year… Read more »
Lindsay Cordery-Bruce is leaving The Wallich to become the new chief executive of Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA). She took over as chief executive of The Wallich in January 2018 and will leave in the first week of April… Read more »
Finance minister Rebecca Evans has found £10 million in extra funding for social housing and homelessness prevention in the Welsh Government’s Final Budget for 2024/25. The minister said was able to make more changes than usual to the Draft Budget… Read more »
A Welsh Government funding shortfall is pushing homelessness workers into poverty, says a new survey. Homelessness and housing support providers have highlighted the impact of repeated Welsh Government funding freezes on the wages of vital workers in the sector in… Read more »
Hopes of an increase in housing support funding were dashed in a Draft Budget for 2024/25 that finance minister Rebecca Evans said left even the NHS and local councils facing a difficult year ahead. She said that Welsh ministers faced… Read more »
More than 70 per cent of vital services which help to prevent homelessness across Wales could be ‘reduced or lost’ if crucial Welsh Government funding is not increased, say campaigners. The warning comes from Cymorth Cymru, and Community Housing Cymru,… Read more »
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