Current category: Europe
26/12/2014
Conwy County Borough Council – Housing Hub.pdf – Dec-2014
Conwy County Borough Council has opened a ‘housing hub’ in Colwyn Bay which co-locates a variety of services to support residents to make housing choices, at the right time, which are right for them. This presentation details the new service and offers food for thought for services across Wales.
25/11/2014
Preparing to Prevent Report – How prepared are local authorities for the homelessness changes?.pdf – Nov-2014
The 'Preparing to Prevent' Report looks at how prepared local authorities in Wales are for the homelessness changes. The Welsh Government’s Housing Act will have significant implications in relation to how local authorities tackle homelessness. With its emphasis on prevention, local authorities will need to ensure their services are structured and modelled appropriately to deliver on preventing homelessness.
22/11/2014
Step by Step Guide – Getting started with your local housing market assessment.pdf – Nov-2014
This guidance supplements the Welsh Government 2006 Local Housing Market Assessment guide. It sets out a quantitative approach to calculating housing need and an assessment of the local housing market, which can be used consistently across local authorities. It aims to help local authorities to undertake their own assessment of the housing market and to provide a starting point on which to build a more sophisticated understanding of their local housing markets.
26/10/2014
Report on support for children in domestic abuse housing related support services.pdf – Oct-2014
This report contains the results and findings of two questionnaires circulated to all DA providers and collected via the regional development coordinators which sought information on children’s provision within refuge and on children’s workers within Domestic Abuse (DA) Services.
26/10/2014
Executive Summary – Assisting those who are homeless or vulnerably housed and have dual diagnosis issues.pdf – Oct-2014
This Executive Summary provides an overarching 'progress report' on the four pilot studies which have been established to develop models of working to improve the outcomes for service users with dual diagnosis issues.
01/10/2014
Leaflet on Planning a Muslim Burial.pdf – Oct-2014
This leaflet offers practical advice about the services and facilities which those planning a Muslim burial can expect to find from Welsh burial authorities. Prepared by Welsh Government and the Welsh Local Government Association and endorsed by the Faith Communities Forum.
02/08/2014
Nutritional Analysis Guide.pdf – Aug-2014
The purpose of this guide is to assist local authority catering managers, head teachers, governors, in-house catering managers and others responsible for nutritional analysis to facilitate the process of calculating the nutritional content of an average school lunch in line with the standards set out in the Healthy Eating in Schools (Nutritional Standards and Requirements) (Wales) Regulations 2013
02/07/2014
2014-2020 Ireland Wales Cooperation Programme.pdf – Jul-2014
Welsh Local Government Association response to the consultation on the Ireland Wales Cooperation Programme.
02/06/2014
In Defence of Localism – Elected Government in Wales and the Impact of Austerity.pdf – Jun-2014
This paper sets out an argument for a localist approach to public service delivery. It argues that local public services must be provided within a democratic framework and that services are best provided when those who use them are directly involved in how they are delivered, managed and planned.
01/06/2014
Good practice and innovation award submission – Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC.pdf – Jun-2014
This submission seeks to highlight the excellent and innovative practices that Rhondda Cynon Taf’s Occupational Health and Wellbeing Unit have undertaken with regard to Elected Member support and seeks to demonstrate that the services and support have demonstrably improved the outcomes for our Elected Members and Rhondda Cynon Taf.