Monthly Archives: December 2010

Evictions … and how to prevent them

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

Shelter Scotland today published their annual update on trends in Scotland around eviction actions initiated by social landlords for rent arrears.  It makes for interesting reading, and can be viewed here.   The encouraging news is that across Scotland evictions … Continue reading →

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Developing Positive Partnerships

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

Partnership working is at the heart of effective service delivery.  Alan Ross, of CHAI’s Development Team, takes a look at some of the positive partnership working that he and his colleagues are currently engaged in: —— Over the past year … Continue reading →

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Housing Benefit Reform Risks Homelessness Increase

Posted on December 3, 2010 by

The UK Government produced a White Paper on Welfare Reform last month –  ’Universal Credit: welfare that works’ (available here). Among the raft of new proposals to reform the, admittedly over-complicated, welfare system lurks a worrying set of reforms to Housing Benefit, … Continue reading →

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Joining up Service Delivery

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

Well, we’ve had the UK Coalition Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review.  We’ve had the subsequent Scottish Budget handed down from Holyrood … now all we wait for is the local budget from the City of Edinburgh Council, and confirmation of where … Continue reading →

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