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Across the UK, there are a large number of charities working at a local and national level to fight homelessness and help the homeless. These charities provide help and advice for people who are rough sleeping, in temporary, insecure or unsuitable accommodation or at risk of becoming homeless. Charities have been at the forefront of the response to homelessness and rough sleeping during the Covid crisis.
Charities have also been central to operations in Scotland and Wales, providing support care and food to rough sleepers protected from the virus in hotels and other emergency accommodation. Homelessness remains a problem in the UK and charities are at the forefront of efforts to end it for good. The vital outreach work that many charities do is often the first contact that people living with homelessness have with support services.
As for official rough sleeping stats, they show 4, people were counted as living on the streets across England in autumn , compared to people in Wales. Just as each person who becomes homeless will have different needs , so each charity within the homelessness sector offers specific and specialist services. Support offered by these charities includes help and advice for people facing homelessness; access to emergency or temporary accommodation; housing and legal advice; assistance getting into education, employment or training; help setting up bank accounts and accessing benefits and support; a safe space; help with drug and alcohol dependency; advocacy and fighting for political solutions to rising levels of homelessness.
Crisis was founded in and offers direct help to people facing homelessness. The charity also campaigns to find solutions to problems around homelessness in the UK. The charity offers education, employment, housing and well-being services from as well as one-to-one support, advice and courses for homeless people in 12 areas across England, Scotland and Wales.
Crisis has played a significant role in the Covid response to protecting rough sleepers. The group is currently carrying out a Housing First inquiry which is assessing how the model — that has seen success in tackling rough sleeping in Scotland, Finland and elsewhere — can be implemented more widely across the UK. Shelter offers advice, information, representation and advocacy to people who are homeless, in unsuitable or insecure housing, or at risk of becoming homeless via an online support network as well as advice and support services.
Alongside this work, Shelter campaigns on issues in the housing and homelessness sectors — including their commission that assessed how many social homes are needed to tackle the housing crisis.
The charity has continued to call for new social housing throughout the crisis and it is their long-term goal to see 3. But the devastating scale of the Covid pandemic has seen Shelter call for greater urgency on the issue. The Big Issue Foundation was founded in to offer outreach work to vendors. Their work includes helping vendors get to housing meetings or job interviews, open bank accounts or get passports, access health care, reconnect with estranged family members or friends, acquire skills to get back into employment, training and education, make the move from the street to hostel, hostel to temporary accommodation or on to something more permanent — before helping out with the essentials to set up home.
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