Toolkit
Homeless Link has produced a toolkit which is a practical resource for housing organisations, to enable them to both better identify veterans and to meet the housing and wider support needs of veterans and their families.
The toolkit has been created to be used alongside a self-audit tool. By completing the audit tool, you will be provided with a baseline position on how well you are identifying and meeting the housing needs of veterans. This then links into the toolkit, to provide you with any statutory requirements, how your approach could be improved, and examples of best practice and innovation.
The toolkit aims to:
- Help frontline housing staff identify veterans
- Give frontline housing staff all the information they need to understand and meet statutory and best practice standards around veterans and their housing needs
- Outline clearly the actions that housing staff need to take, to carry out their roles and be compliant with all statutory guidance
- Give examples of best practice and recommendations as to how organisations can go ‘above and beyond’ in order to support veterans and work towards ending veterans’ experiences of homelessness
There are tailored versions of the toolkit for England, Scotland and Wales. The toolkit, audit tool and other, additional resources can be downloaded by clicking the link for your nation:
England toolkit
Scotland toolkit
Wales toolkit
With a focused approach on meeting the housing needs of veterans, it is possible to reduce and possibly end veterans’ experiences of homelessness.