Prisoners' Housing Rights
Applicable to: England
Course location:
This course will give delegates the skills and knowledge to provide assistance to people from remand through to sentencing and release.
Heavy emphasis will be placed on the importance of sustaining tenancies and the range of available tactics. Participants will also consider the position of those facing homelessness upon discharge and develop an understanding of the assessment of vulnerability under the homelessness legislation.
Course contains
- Policy and legislative impact
- Remand and sentencing and Housing Benefit
- Sentencing and the implications for sustaining tenancies
- Discharge grants
- National Probation Service suspension
- Home detention curfews
- Multi-agency Public Protection Panels
- Homelessness, allocations and exclusions
Learning outcomes
After this course, you will be able to:
- Understand tactics to sustain tenancies during a custodial sentence
- Understand how to work strategically to reduce homelessness and the risk of re-offending
- Identify key case law around vulnerability and supporting homelessness applications.
Suitable for
Homelessness and allocation officers; link workers based in serving prisons and those giving advice to prisoners; link or liaison officers based in local authorities and housing associations.
Enquiry line
Please call 0344 515 1155 or email training@shelter.org.uk
In-house training
We can also run this course in-house. Find out more about in-house training 
