Nearly 2m young people fear they will become homeless if they lose their jobs, new research has shown, adding to the growing evidence showing the coronavirus crisis has had a major impact on the UK’s…Read more…
‘I’ve felt like I’m more at risk of exhaustion than COVID-19’
Homeless hostel team leader Sarah talks about how the coronavirus pandemic has made her and her colleagues’ jobs harder than ever
The article ‘I’ve felt like I’m more at risk of exhaustion than…Read more…
Malvern Hills New Year Walks 2019. Joy & Sadness
Mostly off message but Gill and spent new year in Great Malvern, Worcestershire. We had never been here before but I had seen the historical railway poster (see bottom right) and thought it might be a good place to go walking.
It turned out to be a fa…Read more…
Cathy come home: 50th anniversity tonight on BBC4
“In 1966 the powerful Cathy Come Home shone a light on the desperate housing problems gripping Britain at the time. When the programme first aired, the extent of the crisis shocked the nation – 3 million people were living in slums or stuck in a brutal private renting market. It was a far cry from…Read more…
Homeless Sleeping Rough In St James’s Park 1887
Drawing of homeless people sleeping out in St James’s Park (close to Buckingham Palace) in 1887. Britain was in the grip of a depression, many poor unemployed workers were forced to sleep rough in St…Read more…
Banging the drum over pay
This year Glasgow’s homelessness caseworkers decided to go on strike. This is their story
The article Banging the drum over pay first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Strikers take negotiating table to Glasgow City Council
Seventy striking council workers took their own “negotiating table” to the front doors of the city chambers on Thursday. The council’s homeless caseworkers have been on indefinite strike action for over a week in pursuit of a regarding of their posts. However senior officials and the council’s political leaders have refused to meet the strikers trade union representatives in an effort to resolveRead more…
UNISON Glasgow homeless service workers to take all out strike action
Monday 30 March 2015Seventy workers in Glasgow Council’s Homeless Service will walk out on Tuesday 31 March in a dispute over their pay grade.
The workers are all members of the trade union UNISON and will take all out, indefinite strike action in a dispute over the application of the council’s job evaluation scheme to the role of Homelessness Caseworkers. Three out of every fourRead more…
Why is Housing the dog that never has its political day?
It was pretty depressing to read “Inside Housing” last week and see that housing is not in the voters top 10 priorities for the general election.
For someone who works in social housing and whose case work as a Councillor is mainly about overcrowding …Read more…