This course covers homelessness law and new case law developments. Participants will examine case law on allocations and the current statutory framework, and focus on the process of homelessness decision-making.

Course contains

• Recap on public law issues, plus practical case studies
• Detailed examination of eligibility, homelessness, priority need, intentionality, and local connection
• Suitability of accommodation
• Temporary accommodation duties and issues
• Reviews, appeals, and judicial review
• Housing pending review and appeal
• Housing duties
• Allocations (approximately half a day)

Learning outcomes

After this course, you will be able to:

• Apply public law principles of decision making in a homelessness context
• Understand and apply details of a wide variety of statutory material and caselaw decisions
• Explain and apply broad legal principles to allocations decisions make by local authorities and registered social landlords.

Suitable for

Homeless officers, housing advisers, and solicitors with previous training in homelessness legislation or with substantial experience; the course assumes that delegates will be familiar with the basic definition sections of Part 7 of the Housing Act 1996 as amended by the Homelessness Act 2002.

In-house training

We can also run this course in-house. Find out more about in-house training