This course will provide experienced practitioners with an update on case law and other developments regarding homelessness and allocations.

Course contains

Recent case law legislative developments in the following areas:

• Prevention of homelessness
• Eligibility for assistance
• Vulnerability
• Intentional homelessness
• Discharge of duties / suitability of accommodation
• Local connection
• Reviews and appeals
• Links with the Children Acts and community care provision.

Learning outcomes

After this course, you will be able to:

• Take account of actual or impending changes in legislation or regulation
• Identify current legal and policy issues affecting homeless persons and those in housing need
• Examine the impact of recent case law.

Suitable for

Housing advisers and caseworkers, lawyers, housing and homelessness officers, other local authority staff and managers who have a good working knowledge of housing law and practice.

In-house training

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