Adult safeguarding and homelessness – A briefing on Positive Practice

The Care and Health Improvement Programme (CHIP) funded by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and delivered by the Local Government Association (LGA) in association with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has a national workstream on safeguarding adults and homelessness.

This is an important piece of work and from this Adult safeguarding and homelessness – A briefing on Positive Practice has been produced.

Eight webinars took place and informed the development of the Positive Practice briefing. These webinars were held virtually as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the webinars explicitly focused on responses during the pandemic to safeguarding people experiencing homelessness and all of the webinar presenters were conscious of the implications of this context.

The available learning is pulled together in the section ‘Learning lessons from the response to the pandemic.’ Doubtless, more learning will emerge as research projects report and as personal testimonies emerge from people with lived experience and from practitioners working with them. The briefing ends with a conclusion that emphasises the importance of learning lessons from the pandemic, namely retaining what has worked effectively in safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of people experiencing homelessness, rather than returning unreflectively to previous policies and practice. The final section, ‘Resources’ lists some useful references.

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