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COVID-19 and homelessness services Welcome! We will start at 3pm Please set your Chat panel to All panelists and attendees so that everyone can see your messages www.homeless.org.uk #HomelessCovid19 Lets end homelessness

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COVID-19 and homelessness services

Let’s end homelessness together www.homeless.org.uk #HomelessCovid19 Welcome! We will start at 3pm

Please set your Chat panel to ‘All panelists and attendees’ so that everyone can see your messages

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COVID-19 and homelessness services

Let’s end homelessness together www.homeless.org.uk #HomelessCovid19

Tasmin Maitland & Sue Christoforou, Homeless Link Jenny McAteer & Jo Brown, Groundswell 24th June 2020

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The Power of the Peer! Active Participation during a pandemic Homeless Link Webinar 24 June 2019

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Who are you?

Jenny McAteer #HealthNow Director @jen_jen_mac Jo Brown Research Manager @JoMichelleBrown

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And Groundswell?

Participation works Valuable people Community benefit Only us

COVID MONITORING PROJECT EXTRA-ORDINARY ALLIANCE MEETINGS ACTION UPDATES, PAVEMENT, PODCASTS CALL AND CHECK SERVICE PEERS, PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS

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It is possible to have active participation of people with experience of homelessness in your decision making – yes, even in a pandemic!

So what’s it all about?

Build a network of peer power Being equal Amplify experience Create solutions together Case Study: Monitoring the impact of COVID-19

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Why Active Participation?

“Service users and carers take the lead in determining policy or service development, individual care and recovery” NSUN 4PNI National Involvement Standards.

Listen to experience Shift power base Understan d Better solutions

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Use Slido.com Event number: #91960 and rate your participation so far The Lived Experience #HomelessCOVID19 Challenge: How to enable active participation of people with experience of homelessness in decision making on COVID19 response locally and nationally. How to avoid the usual excuses:

  • There’s no time or resources because we have to act fast
  • How do we reach people beyond the usual suspects?
  • What about the digital divide?
  • How can we support people properly?
  • People don’t engage with us
  • We want to avoid tokenism
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Challenges:

  • Maintaining contact/reaching people and ‘bringing people together’ virtually
  • Making sure reps can really be representative of lived experience and the network

Build a network of peer power

Existing connections:

  • Local teams of

peers

  • Connecting with
  • ther
  • rganisations

New connections:

  • Partnerships
  • Building a team of

citizen journalists – On Our Radar

Supporting:

  • Training to

support people’s advocacy and research skills

  • Support networks

Networking:

  • Creating
  • pportunities for

people to connect, share and work together

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Challenges:

  • Power imbalances
  • Getting ‘buy in’ from decision makers and preparing people – insight led

Being Equal

In Groundswell and #HealthNow Partnership:

  • Reference group
  • #HealthNow

Partnership Board

  • Input on plans,

methods and analysis of data Local COVID responses:

  • Setting the

agenda for #HealthNow Alliances

  • Sharing local

intelligence

  • Critical friends of

the system- accountability National COVID responses:

  • COVID Monitoring

Project Steering Group NHSE/I

  • Lived experience

NHSE/I group

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Challenges:

  • Developing new approaches to face-to-face communications
  • Broadening reach

Amplify experience

Live intelligence routes:

  • Call and check
  • Peer network
  • Partners

Creating opportunities to share stories:

  • Interviews
  • People taking the lead

through mobile reporting Making people heard:

  • Feed in through alliances

at local level

  • Feed in at a national

level (i.e. steering group, APPG submission)

  • Wider awareness

through briefings and co- producing recommendations

  • Healthy London

Partnership

  • APPG submission
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Create solutions together

For people experiencing homelessness:

  • Producing Action

Updates with and for people experiencing homelessness

  • Working with ‘The

Pavement’ to develop special editions To support local responses:

  • Local planning to

develop a ‘Listen Up!’ toolkit

  • Working with Crisis and

Pathway to develop a self-assessment toolkit for local authorities. To inform national responses:

  • Workshop on digital

divide with peers and faculty of inclusion health/ pathway Challenges:

  • Pace of decision making
  • Intent= implement gaps
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Case Study: Peer Led Monitoring the impact of COVID-19

Holding the system to account Peer reference group to steer project Strategic steering group with decision makers Design, adapt research tools, together Explore and analyse data and insights Develop solutions and recommend ations together

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What are we hearing so far?

Early findings have illustrated the importance of:

  • A consistent and multi-agency response to planning
  • Ensuring existing health needs are addressed to prevent

significant worsening of conditions by reducing barriers to health care

  • A clear focus on a humanitarian approach to

homelessness which considers more than just securing accommodation “We are not registering homeless people full stop” ‘[I have] been told I cannot get any more food unless I provide evidence from my Dr that I am vulnerable’

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What are we hearing so far?

  • Exploring solutions to delivering services

remotely which do not perpetuate the digital divide

  • Maintaining the steps people have taken in their

recovery to ensure people continue to be supported post-COVID

  • The power of the peer!

“No WIFI, no TV, can't walk, suffering from severe anxiety and depression and mental health has deteriorated over the last few weeks. Not being able to go out is difficult… Lonely and bored” “Everybody now in there, their scripts are sorted, any kind of health things have been addressed”

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Use Slido.com event number: #91960 to share your plans to improve active participation

Your recipe for active participation

Set up a peer led Alliance/ task force in your local area Establish or connect with a network of peers Invest in people- give a lot =get a lot 1.Gather and amplify experience of homelessness Ensure decision making is informed by experience Get people involved with the COVID-19 monitoring project

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Find out more

  • Read our briefings from the COVID-19 project

https://groundswell.org.uk/monitoring-covid-19/

  • Find our action updates

https://groundswell.org.uk/coronavirus/

  • Find our ‘Listen Up!’ toolkit

https://groundswell.org.uk/listen-up/

  • Use our local self-assessment toolkit

https://groundswell.org.uk/covid19- selfassessmenttool/

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Thank You

Contact Jo for information about the COVID-19 project or our research: Jo.brown@groundswell.org.uk Contact Jenny for information about the #HealthNow partnership and alliances: Jenny.mcateer@groundswell.org.uk Contact Sharon for information about how Groundswell trains and supports peers: Sharon.Clint@groundswell.org.uk

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COVID-19 and homelessness services

Let’s end homelessness together www.homeless.org.uk #HomelessCovid19

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Policy update

www.homeless.org.uk Let’s end homelessness together

Ø Funding Ø Welfare Ø Housing First Ø Upcoming event looking at NRPF

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Policy update

www.homeless.org.uk Let’s end homelessness together

  • Today’s announcement: £105m

£85m of new funding from Treasury £20m from ‘refocusing existing homeless and rough sleeping budgets’

  • Funding programme details to be announced next week

to bring a range of new accommodation units into use

Funding

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Policy update

www.homeless.org.uk Let’s end homelessness together

  • Funding for 6,000 new supported homes was announced in May,

bringing forward £381m funding from the Budget – total: £433m

  • £160m has been allocated 2020/21, of which £30m for revenue
  • Of the £433m over 4 years, £197m of that will be for revenue funding
  • 3,300 of new homes will become available in the next 12 months
  • Bid guidance must reference need for support based on known need

Funding

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Policy update

www.homeless.org.uk Let’s end homelessness together

  • No news on extra £20/week UC beyond February 2021
  • No equivalent increase for JSA or ESA – legal challenge being prepared
  • Govt do not intend to reduce the LHA but no clarity re: what happens next
  • Benefit cap still in place – Govt adamant this will not change
  • Three month hiatus for benefit overpayment and conditionality due to end
  • Govt have not said when sanctions will return
  • Some providers who have lost Housing Benefit income are looking to

LAs for compensation

Welfare

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Policy update

www.homeless.org.uk Let’s end homelessness together Housing First advisory group

  • LAs, social landlords, Govt
  • Joint statement and calls on Govt to be published soon

Pan London Umbrella Support (PLUS) event 13 July 1pm-2:30pm Transition Planning in London, focusing on NRPF

  • Hear what’s being done in parts of the capital, and join discussions.
  • Register at: London.Plus@homelesslink.org.uk

Housing First No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)

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COVID-19 and homelessness services

Let’s end homelessness together www.homeless.org.uk #HomelessCovid19

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Current guidance

www.homeless.org.uk Let’s end homelessness together

  • Night shelters – waiting for updates
  • Heatwave planning – PHE guidance: www.homeless.org.uk/connect/blogs

“in contrast to deaths associated with cold snaps in winter, the rise in mortality as a result of very warm weather follows very sharply – within one or two days

  • f the temperature rising.”

“COVID-19 amplifies the risk of hot weather… People at risk from high temperatures may also be vulnerable to COVID-19 infection, and vice versa.”

24 June 2020

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Actions to reduce heat health risks this summer

www.homeless.org.uk Let’s end homelessness together

  • 1. Sign up for Met Office heat health alerts
  • 2. Raise awareness of heat risks among staff and the people you support

e.g. download PHE’s Beat the Heat poster

  • 3. Inform staff of the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heatstroke
  • 4. Use this heatwave checklist for residential settings
  • 5. Speak to your local authority public health, housing and emergency planning

teams about coordinating heatwave responses

  • 6. Review your local plan in light of COVID-19 restrictions, prioritising

vulnerable people

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Actions to reduce heat health risks this summer

www.homeless.org.uk Let’s end homelessness together

7. Increase access to cool or shady spaces, indoors and outdoors – talk to local authority and other local organisations 8. Provide drinking water, refillable water bottles, sunscreen and summer clothing, including hats and sunglasses – ask local businesses and supporters for donations 9. Arrange for safe storage of winter coats and heavy bags

  • 10. Map drinking water, public toilets and air conditioned public buildings in

your local area for people out during the day

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Rough Sleeping Conference 2020 Online

8th and 9th July 2020, 10am-4pm

Let’s end homelessness together www.homeless.org.uk/roughsleepingconference Confirmed speaker: Minister for Rough Sleeping and Housing, Luke Hall Delegates access 20 sessions, plus networking via Slack £35 members / £55 non-members