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Suzannah Young

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Policy Leader at National Housing Federation. Views my own. Repost not endorsement. May contain tea. #SupportedHousing #OlderPeoplesHousing #StartsAtHome #EndHomelessness #Healthandhousing

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 02/04/2026
Councils failed to assess over a third of homeless young peoples' needs in England last year, Centrepoint found
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Homeless young people 'left to sleep rough' after council failures
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Neil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
10 Key messages on #OlderPeople health by @gerisoc.bsky.social - essential reading for policy-makers & commissioners - modern service framework #frailty & #EndofLifeCare #palliative 1. Number of people 85 years and older is expected to double by 2047 (1.7m increasing to 3.3m) www.bgs.org.uk/keymsgs
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BGS key messages: Older people's healthcare | British Geriatrics Society
BGS key messages have been developed to provide members and multidisciplinary colleagues with topline information about specific issues relating to older people's healthcare. We encourage discussion o...
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Neil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Key message 10. Lack of social care, or delays in arranging etc causes harm - people remain in hospital unnecessarily. Financially, lack of social care causes additional cost to NHS £1.7billion per year in England @gerisoc.bsky.social
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Unsafe sleep: how councils responded to the rule change on cots in temporary accommodation
Two years ago, councils were given a responsibility to provide cots in temporary accommodation. But with babies still dying, Keith Cooper investigates how councils have responded to the new child safety clauses in the Homelessness Code of Guidance
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Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
What will the Renters’ Rights Act mean in practice? Join us at Northern Housing Festival to explore the key policy changes and their real-world implications for tenants, landlords, and housing professionals Book your ticket today ⬇️ buff.ly/Glto17B
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Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Issue 62 of CIH Unlocked 🔓 is live! In this issue's lead, we speak with Eastlight Homes CEO Emma Palmer about her role as the government's disability and access ambassador for housing and why the need for inclusive homes has never been more urgent ➡️ buff.ly/6Dj4xaw All content ➡️ buff.ly/D5x0PJ3
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Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🔦 Session Spotlight 🔦 Join us for this roundtable for the opportunity to come together with fellow housing professionals, policymakers, charities and partners to share insights and solutions aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness 🎟️ Book now ➡️ buff.ly/OKVsHla
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Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🔦 Session Spotlight 🔦 Join the discussion on how existing homes can be adapted, reconfigured, and repurposed to offer choice, independence and community connection 🎟️ Book your free place today ➡️ buff.ly/hia3vib 🚀 Explore the programme ➡️ buff.ly/aXGnj5l
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CIH policy @cihpolicy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Great to see this news today⬇️ Here's a 🧵with CIH's reaction from @rachaelwhsg.bsky.social 🗣️"CIH welcomes the government’s launch of funding, as announced in the National Plan to End Homelessness, to support community based and voluntary organisations tackling homelessness and rough sleeping. 1/3
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Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Come together with experts, practitioners, and community voices to unpack the realities behind the headlines, and how accurate data and compassionate communication can help challenge myths and build trust 🎟️ Book your free place today ➡️ buff.ly/0ne0Wjc
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Everyone In was ‘missed opportunity’ to end rough sleeping, Covid Inquiry hears
The government’s Everyone In homelessness initiative at the start of the pandemic was a “missed opportunity” to end rough sleeping for good, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has heard
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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Housing minister marks ‘milestone’ as bidding for SAHP opens
The housing minister has marked an “important milestone” in the government’s housebuilding ambitions as the Social and Affordable Homes Programme opens for bidding today
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Rough sleeping figures reach record high as government announces new £50m funding pot
The number of people sleeping rough on a single night in England has reached a record high of 4,793, new government figures have shown
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National Housing Federation @natfednews.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Are you a social housing resident keen to shape decisions affecting millions of tenants across England? On our Tenant Advisory Panel (TAP), you can make a real difference to the lives of others and learn invaluable skills. 👉Apply to join TAP by 30 Jan www.housing.org.uk/news-and-blo...
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NHS Confederation (now known as The NHS Alliance) @nhsconfed.org · 20/01/2026
The programme for our Care Closer to Home conference in London on 24 February is now live 🎉 This event brings together colleagues from across the system to examine what’s needed to make neighbourhood working a success — the kind of collaboration that will underpin a radically reconfigured NHS.
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National Housing Federation @natfednews.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
When a supported housing scheme closes, those who rely on its vital services suffer most. But, other public services are forced to make crisis interventions at higher costs – impacting us all. The government must commit to a long-term funding settlement for supported housing.
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National Housing Federation @natfednews.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"I want the Government to understand how much supported housing helps people get where they need to be.” Living in supported housing 'changes everything' for people like Mark, yet one in 10 supported housing schemes are at imminent risk of closure.
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Paula Barker MP @paulabarkermp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Over 380,000 people in England will be spending the festive season homeless, including 175,000 children. We need to be far bolder if we are going to tackle this crisis. My piece for @bigissue.com on the cross-government strategy for ending homelessness. www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...
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Labour must be bolder to turn around the state’s failures on homelessness
Labour's homelessness strategy is not enough to end homelessness for good in England, writes MP Paula Barker after Housing First snub,
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ADASS @adass.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
@mel-williams.bsky.social and Sarah McClinton, both past Presidents of ADASS, join @impower.bsky.social for a session on how councils can replace siloed services with a more inclusive, lifelong approach to supporting young people into adulthood. #ncasc25
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National Housing Federation @natfednews.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A tomorrow's Autumn Budget, we are asking Chancellor Rachel Reeves to save our supported housing with emergency funding – ensuring that families just like Mawushi's have the support they need to live independently. 🔗Read Mawushi's full story here: startsathome.org.uk/stories/mawu...
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Pathway @pathwayuk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We warmly welcome the news that, for the first time, housing status has been included in @nhsengland.bsky.social's Statement of Information on Health Inequalities, setting out what information Trusts and Integrated Care Boards should collect to meet their equalities duties.
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rightsnet @rightsnet.org.uk · 17/11/2025
Two-thirds of councils in England have not prosecuted a single landlord in the past three years www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68939
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ADASS @adass.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Our latest survey of Directors of adult social services, published today, shows that high-cost social care for young adults has risen by almost a third in the past year. Read the report: adass.org.uk/documents/ad... #AutumnSurvey2025 #AutumnBudget2025 #NCASC2025
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Homeless Link @homelesslink.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
See our Breaking the Cycle report more more measures the Government could embrace to end the current emergency and start building a country free from homelessness. homeless.org.uk/what-we-do/c...
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Breaking the Cycle
Homeless Link's campaign for a funding system fit to end homelessness
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Pathway @pathwayuk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📢📢📢 Out today, @pathwayuk.bsky.social's annual report shines a light on the huge achievements of the NHS hospital homelessness teams supported through our Pathway Partnership Programme (PPP) 👇 tinyurl.com/j2wes7xp
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Suzannah Young @suzannahyoung.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Councils need to invest in supported housing as well as general needs social housing to cut the temporary accommodation bill. Decommissioning supported housing is a false economy www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/council... @insidehousing.bsky.social
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Councils’ temporary accommodation bill to reach £3bn by end of decade, LGA finds
English councils’ spending on temporary accommodation is likely to reach £3bn by the end of the decade, the Local Government Association has found.
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Home REIT in talks to sell portfolio for £123m
Beleaguered investment trust Home REIT, which provides accommodation for homeless people, is in talks to sell most of its 853-home portfolio for £123m
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Suzannah Young @suzannahyoung.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
23,500 young people facing homelessness this winter in worsening crisis, warns leading charity via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... The article shows how important #supportedhousing is to help young people make the transition to adulthood, and avoid homelessness
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Thousands of young people face homelessness this winter as crisis worsens
The North West and Yorkshire and the Humber are among the worst affected places as homelessness is set to rise this season
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Is this ‘luxury’? Exposing the living conditions of asylum seekers
Overcrowding, neglect and profit-driven hotels are failing asylum seekers, writes Isabelle Pereira of Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex & London
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Supported housing is crucial to tackling the divisive conversations around immigration
Positive conversations around immigration are needed now more than ever, writes Fuad Mahamed, founder and chief executive of refugee and migrant housing provider ACH
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Paula Barker MP @paulabarkermp.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Domestic abuse is a housing issue. The cycle of abuse and homelessness is one we can and must break. Thank you to @kathyswinds.bsky.social & @insidehousing.bsky.social www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/supporting-survivors-of-domestic-abuse-must-be-core-to-our-fight-against-homelessness-94622
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Supporting survivors of domestic abuse must be core to our fight against homelessness
The government has a generational opportunity to tackle the homelessness emergency and women must be at the forefront of that strategy, writes MP Paula Barker.
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Public Law Project @publiclawproject.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
‪Public Law Project‬ ‪@publiclawproject.bsky.social‬ · 5m 🚨 New research: DWP sanctions are counterproductive 🚨 Our study with the Central England Law Centre reveals that #UniversalCredit sanctions fail on their own terms and causes serious hardship. publiclawproject.org.uk/latest/sanct...
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Sanctionable Failures: Universal Credit’s failing sanctions regime and the harm it causes - Public Law Project
New research shows that the Universal Credit sanctions system fails on its own terms
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Suzannah Young @suzannahyoung.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Adopting a whole housing approach for those fleeing domestic abuse is essential. We need more #supportedhousing schemes that recognise that healing and rebuilding a life requires more than just a roof overhead." Important point from @paulabarkermp.bsky.social
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Supporting survivors of domestic abuse must be core to our fight against homelessness
The government has a generational opportunity to tackle the homelessness emergency and women must be at the forefront of that strategy, writes Paula Barker, co-chair APPG for Ending Homelessness
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Former prime minister and retailers back Prince William’s homelessness project with furniture and essential goods
A charity led by former prime minister Gordon Brown and four major UK retailers have partnered with Prince William’s homelessness project to furnish 250 homes
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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Today West Streeting recommitted to plans made earlier in the year to abolish NHS England (NHSE). This plan will now move forward, following arrangements made with the Treasury. Find out more about what the dismantling of NHSE might mean. bit.ly/49OiQ7K
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The Reshaping Of NHS National Bodies Has Only Just Started. How Will It Finish? | The King's Fund
Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.
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House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk · 11/11/2025
🔴 Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Pat McFadden MP is making a statement: Pensions update. Watch live ⬇️ parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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Suzannah Young @suzannahyoung.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
How do we make affordable homeownership accessible for disabled people? by @advancehousing.bsky.social www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/how-...
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How do we make affordable homeownership accessible for disabled people?
Our shared ownership scheme can make a difference for people’s health and independence, but we need other providers to get on board, writes Graeme Jackson at Advance Housing and Support
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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Temporary accommodation funding freeze costing district councils £268m a year, report finds
The government’s freeze on temporary accommodation subsidy is draining councils of £268m a year, according to new analysis by the District Councils’ Network
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National Housing Federation @natfednews.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Supported housing transforms lives whilst taking pressure off the public purse. We need to see investment in supported housing at the Autumn Budget, with long-term funding in the government's housing strategy and homelessness strategy. A great piece from Home Group👇
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Suzannah Young @suzannahyoung.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
💯#Supportedhousing takes pressure off statutory services and saves taxpayers £3.5bn per year www.housing.org.uk/resources/th...
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The financial benefits of supported housing
With our Save Our Supported Housing campaign taking place in the run up to the Spending Review, we've put together a research briefing on the financial benefits of supported housing.
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Investing in supported services isn't just the right thing to do – it's the smart thing to do
Our services prevent crises, reduce pressure on the NHS and help individuals contribute to communities, writes Katherine Hernandez, Home Group regional director
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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5 things we learned from the Social and Affordable Homes Programme prospectus
The government has published guidance for the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, ahead of the launch in February 2026. Eliza Parr looks at some key points
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Exclusive: MPs and peers back ‘essential’ planning reforms for older people’s housing
Ministers have been urged to “reset” older people’s housing in an upcoming suite of planning reforms, Inside Housing can reveal
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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This Remembrance Day, veteran supported housing faces a cliff edge
We need long-term sustainable funding for veteran supported housing, writes Lee Buss-Blair, director of operations and group veterans lead at Riverside
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Porchlight @porchlight1974.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
October is Domestic Abuse Awareness Month Home should mean safety - not fear, but too many women are being forced to choose between abuse and homelessness. Read our latest blog to learn more. www.porchlight.org.uk/news/the-lin... #DomesticAbuseAwarenessMonth #EndHomelessness
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Suzannah Young @suzannahyoung.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Reading "The implications of population ageing for social policy" - including #housing commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri... via @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Library
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National Housing Federation @natfednews.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
At the Autumn Budget, the government must #SaveOurSupportedHousing by committing to emergency funding. Without this, we risk losing even more of the vital homes that hundreds of thousands of people rely on. 🔗Our Head of Policy writes more in LocalGov: www.localgov.co.uk/Autumn-Budge...
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Brighton man who died in Eastbourne hotel came up against ‘circular’ homelessness system, inquest hears
A man from Brighton who died after being sent 22 miles down the coast to a hotel in Eastbourne encountered a “circular” homelessness system, an inquest has heard
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Suzannah Young @suzannahyoung.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Completely agree with @margaretmullanemp.bsky.social
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