The next Migration / Homeless working group meeting will take place at Leeds Asylum Seeker Support Network (LASSN) building at Oak House, Park Ln, Leeds LS3 1EL. Thursday 20th September, 2-4pm. A number of people from the refugee / asylum seeker community have had good opportunity to feed into the LCC Homeless Strategy through a number of different means. The Migration / Homeless Charter discussions will be fed into the Leeds Migration Partnership which meets quarterly and has housing / homelessness as one of its key aims.
The Mental Health / Addiction working will meet on Wednesday 26th September 10 – 12noon, Provisional Venue, St George’s Crypt (TBC)
Attached is a document which sums up what was talked about at the last meeting and a diagram which will be developed and become part of the charter. This aims to show the route / pathway someone can take from been on the on the street to accessing support and finding secure accommodation.
Click Here to see working notes and start up diagram.
Commissioned Services Connecting with Charities / Grass Root Groups – This group met in June and then many people attended a meeting in July which enabled people to feed into the LCC Homeless Strategy. A draft safeguarding document is still been worked on which will be circulated in early September. The current draft is been sent to the Volunteer Centre and LCC Safeguarding team to get their thoughts on activities. A meeting date will be finalised by early September. Apologies that we haven’t quite managed to get a date yet.
Big Change – The new Big Change fund and marketing campaign is been launched in early October, (3rd Oct is the provisional date). Currently a small grants programme is been piloted which is open to official charities. Please note this is just a pilot and every effort will be made to help groups that can’t apply this time have the necessary governance to apply next time round. There is a link here in case more people want find out more.
Notes from the Leeds City Council Homeless Strategy meeting attached here (Click) is the notes from the Leeds City Council Homeless Strategy meeting which took place in July, where people with lived experience, grass root groups and charities were able to feed into the Strategy which is updated every 3 years. Thanks to everyone who came and to Housing Options / Council for calling the meeting and listening to everyone’s perspectives.
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