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Response to the Regional Plan

The East Midlands Regional Assembly launched the Draft Regional Plan (the Regional Spatial Strategy for the East Midlands) for consultation on Thursday, 28 September 2006. Consultation closed on 20 December. The Regional Homelessness Forum's response to the Plan can be accessed here.

Homeless Link - Preventing Homelessness Conference, Nottingham 30 January 2007

Homeless Link's Preventing Homelessness conferences explore how, two years into the prevention agenda and 'spend to save', local authorities and their community and voluntary sector partners are learning from emerging best practice.

These timely events will examine how the DCLG's new Homelessness Code of Guidance can be practically applied as local authorities review their homelessness strategies, especially through partnerships between authorities and the voluntary sector. They will look at how the prevention agenda continues to evolve, the partnerships and initiatives it has prompted, and offer a forum to discover and debate how challenges may be met successfully in the future.

To access the booking form and flier for the event, please go to:
http://www.homeless.org.uk/developyourservice/events/Preventinghomelessnesslowres1.pdf

Regional Homelessness Strategy
 
CURS (The Centre for Urban & Regional Studies at Birmingham University) have recently been appointed to take forward the development of the first East Midlands Regional Homelessness Strategy. As part of this work, CURS will be running a number of consultation events during December at venues across the East Midlands.
 
Details are outlined below, however further information including background documents and research can be found on the CURS website at: http://www.curs.bham.ac.uk/Research/CICG/CURS0602project.htm

Consultation Events
 
The dates and venues for these events are shown below. Each event will start at 10.00 a.m. and end at 1.00 p.m.

• December 1st, Lincolnshire.
  
• December 7th, Bakewell 
  
• December 8th, Nottingham
  
• December 13th, Derby
  
• December 14th, Kettering

 These events are intended to:

• share early findings from the research,
  
• relate these to hopes and aspirations of organisations working in each sub-region,
  
• feed into the next stages of the strategy, and
  
• assist in sub-regional action planning for the future development of homelessness services

Representatives of local authorities, housing associations, primary care trusts, citizens advice bureau, the voluntary sector and other local agencies with an interest in homelessness have been invited to these events. Further details are available from Yvonne Harley at the University of Birmingham y.t.harley@bham.ac.uk.
 
For any other queries regarding CURS work please contact either David Mullins d.w.mullins@bham.ac.uk or Rob Rowlands r.o.rowlands@bham.ac.uk 

Tackling Homelessness Across the East Midlands.

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