The Good Practice Toolkit

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The Good Practice Toolkit
Knowledge Base

• Johanna Holmes, NYHS Project Manager
• Centrepoint

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Key principles

• Source of useful material, examples and contacts
• Learning from
• Successful / effective practice
• Work in progress / unproven practice / pilot
  projects
• Good and less good experiences
• Accessible
• Key audiences / users
• Local authority housing strategists and LA
  partners
• Service and accommodation providers

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Modular structure
Being strategic
Early intervention and prevention
Early prevention and advice
Mediation and home visiting
School-based work
Assessment and LA Advice in Housing
Supported accommodation
Supported lodgings and Nightstops
Emergency accommodation (Hostels)
Forms of move-on from hostels
Floating support
Wider needs
Complex needs and high vulnerability
Health
Learning and work
BME young people
Tackling anti-social behaviour
Offenders and offending
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Content

• Case studies
• Downloadable documents
• Experience from NYHS live learning projects
• Links to relevant published research, guidance,
  etc.
• Local authority self-assessment tool.

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Timetable

• First general release on web October 07
• Review and feedback Oct 07-Jan 08
• Final release March 08
• ..ongoing contributions and knowledge
  exchange?....

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Parallel activities

• NYHS Regional Centres of Excellence
• NYHS Conferences
• Awareness-raising in local partner disciplines
• Health
• Childrens Services
• Housing Benefit
• Housing Corporation Homelessness Action Team

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Getting involved

• Activities centred on RCOE for South East
• LB Croydon, Crawley DC, Milton Keynes Council
  GOSE hope to issue programme in late September
• Case studies and materials for the Knowledge
  Base
• Now contact Jo Gunner or Johanna Holmes
• During review period
• Building foundations for the future
• Partnerships for strategic change / improvement
• Knowledge sharing networks.