High Voltage Training

3rd February to 23rd March 2010

HIGH VOLTAGE training is a new training session designed to help you and your staff get to grips with electricity tariffs, prices, meter reading, electricity related terms and jargon, and much more. All this information can really make a difference when helping to set up a tenancy, or improve a tenancy someone is already in. At a bargain £30 per delegate, including lunch, it’s hard to see how you miss the opportunity! Our sessions are being held on:

3rd Feb @ Dundee

5th Feb @ Edinburgh - fully booked Call 0131 226 4382 to be added to waiting list and/or see if any of the other dates/locations are suitable for you.

9th Feb @ Dumbarton - fully booked Call 0131 226 4382 to be added to waiting list and/or see if any of the other dates/locations are suitable for you.

11th Feb @ Stirling

17th Feb @ Borders

23rd Feb @ Falkirk

25th Feb @ Oban - last few places remaining

RESCHEDULED DATE 9th March @ EDINBURGH

12th March @ Ayr

18th March @ Glasgow - fully booked Call 0131 226 4382 to be added to waiting list and/or see if any of the other dates/locations are suitable for you.

19th March @ Inverness - fully booked Call 0131 226 4382 to be added to waiting list and/or see if any of the other dates/locations are suitable for you.

23rd March @ Perth.

Training time: 10 am to 3.30pm.

Call 0131 2264382 or email admin@scsh.org.uk for a booking form.

The booking form can be downloaded here

If your organisation is interested in holding a High Voltage training event for your staff, contact Nick Bell on 0131 226 4382 for more information.

Presentations from the 10th SCSH National Homelessness Conference

- Apex International Hotel, Edinburgh, on Thursday 5th & Friday 6th November 2009

This year’s National Homelessness Conference offered the chance to take stock of what has been achieved, what works well, and what still needs to be done. It offered an ideal opportunity to learn about policy and practice at home and abroad, share ideas and galvanise the momentum needed to keep Scotland’s homelessness strategy on track.

"Thought provoking - clearly a lot of work for us to do!"

"Using the GIRFEC model with young people would appear to be best practice - I will take this forward"
The presentations from the Conference can be downloaded here

SCSH Submits Response to the Draft Housing (Scotland) Bill 2009

- SCSH Offices 26 June 2009

The Scottish Government has consulted on reforms to the Right to Buy and reforms to the powers and duties of the Scottish Housing Regulator.

SCSH's response has been informed by consultation with our members.

The response can be downloaded here

Brilliant Bargain Booklets!

March 2009

At their original price, they were great value for money, but now the Award Winning ‘My Space, My Place’ guides are half price; you would be quite right to be squealing with delight and amazement whilst reading this!.

Each guide consists of 11 magazines of invaluable information aimed at young tenants aged 16 to 25 who are moving into their first tenancies. The magazines include lots of practical advice, produced in a very user friendly layout and format. These would normally be priced at £12.50 each, but are now at the bargain cost of £6.25*.

Or, if it is a guide to leaving home that would be more suitable, how about the ‘Streets Ahead’ Guide – aimed at 14 to 21 year olds. This resource was created by young people, for young people. It was £6 per copy, and is down to £3*.

To order, just call the Youth Team at SCSH on: 0131 226 4382.

* All prices exclude the P&P Charge.

Practice Bites

Our Practice Bites database is taking a retro move in image, but will be very new and up to the minute with its information. It will be a must for your ‘My Favourites’, and that old address book that is cluttering your drawer can be ditched!

To make sure you are a part of this, please e-mail Jules (see About Us Section) with your organisations details, and a blurb on what you do. A lovely logo can be included too…. in fact, even a photograph or two could be attached, if you fancy!

If you are one of the many wise ones out there who choose to take us up on this free offer, we will then e-mail you when the new look database is up and running.

Jules Oldham, Youth Team

More Info: Practice Bites

Section 32A Response

SCSH has responded to the Scottish Government Consultation – Regulations made under Section 32A of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987. The regulations define circumstances in which transitional accommodation which is not permanent may be provided for unintentionally homeless households in priority need. The consultation also considers how local authorities in the future could discharge their duty to homeless households through provision of a Short Assured Tenancy.

Click on the link below to view SCSH's response.

Click here to download the Section 32A response. (Clear print document)

SCSH Stock Transfer Research Published

A new report published by the Scottish Council for Single Homeless (SCSH) shows that homelessness services in areas of Scotland where councils have transferred their housing stock have generally been an afterthought. The report ‘Managing Homelessness without Housing’ looks at the experience of four local authority areas in Scotland following stock transfer.

Click here to download a summary of the research.

The research was jointly funded by Scottish Council for Single Homeless, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and Glasgow Homelessness Network

Copies of the full report Managing Homelessness without Housing are available price £15 from SCSH (full address and e-mail)

More Info: SCSH Stock Transfer Research Published

SCSH Consultation Responses

SCSH has responded to the Scottish Government Consultation – Scottish Planning Policy 3: Planning for Housing and the Scottish Civil Courts Review – A Consultation Paper. Click on the links below to view each response.

Click here to download the planning policy response. (Clear print document)

Click here to download the civil courts review response. (Clear print document)

Practice Bites brief, innovative and replicable examples of youth housing practice

Find out what other youth housing / support projects are doing and contribute your own practice bites. Click here to access the Practice Bite database.