Working in homelessness I often heard the question ‘Why do people become homeless?’

From my experience, people ask this question with one or two motives. On the one hand its asked with a genuine interest in wanting to know (and understand) why some people end up homeless and others do not. On the other, its raised as a query with an almost judgemental tone that if you are homeless it’s your fault and you need to get your act together and get a grip.

Emergency governance arrangements were quickly put in place to respond to the pandemic

Given the unprecedented situation and the speed with which the pandemic took hold in March, it was inevitable that emergency governance arrangements would be needed.

Whilst even before lockdown, legislation was in place that allowed councillors to take part in any council meeting ‘remotely’, using technology, the same legislation also requires that at least 30% of attendees must be physically present in the meeting.

We are looking at practice across public sectors, to see how organisations are responding to the impact of COVID-19 and how they are working differently to provide services.