by Carrie Smith | May 12, 2020 | Homelessness
Meet Rose Leonard. A self confessed doer who loves helping people. She came to the council on a six week stint helping out with processing bus passes for concessionary travel and she’s still there twenty eight years later. Rose’s worked in most teams including fraud,...
by Carrie Smith | May 12, 2020 | Homelessness
Meet Stephen Philpott. Just two months in to a six month contract for Birmingham City Council leading on rough sleepers, then Lockdown starts and the Government instruction to councils follows: get everyone in and off the streets and keep them safe. You have 48 hours...
by Carrie Smith | May 1, 2020 | Homelessness
We’ve all walked past that homeless person on the street but what happens when the Government announces in the daily Coronavirus briefing that councils have a new duty – to house all their rough sleepers and make them safe – in just 48 hours West Midlands Employers...
