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A warm welcome to Multiple Disadvantage Matters, the fortnightly newsletter from the Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) coalition.
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Thematic Action Groups
Following on from our introductory thematic sessions on mental health and prison release, we will be holding two follow up sessions on the afternoons of the 9th and 10th December. If you are interested in joining either of these thematic action groups, please contact Laura Greason at laura.greason@meam.org.uk. If you were unable to attend the introductory sessions we are very happy to speak to you with more details and can send you a recording of the sessions.
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Latest policy news - COVID-19
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Next Steps Accommodation Funding
Communities Secretary, Robert Jenrick, has announced the allocation of £150 million government funding across England to provide new long-term homes for rough sleepers and other vulnerable people.
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Homelessness Winter Transformation Fund
Applications are now open for the new Homelessness Winter Transformation Fund. Homelessness, faith, community and voluntary sector organisations can apply for funding to provide single room and Covid-19 secure accommodation for people experiencing homelessness this winter.
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A new approach to employment support
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Blocking the path: how many problem drinkers are in treatment?
A recent feature from drinkanddrugsnews.com raises the question of how many of England's problem drinkers are in treatment and whether increasing rates of unmet need are a result of austerity driven-funding cuts.
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Deportation proposals for foreign national rough sleepers
It has been reported that new post-Brexit immigration rules will put foreign nationals found rough sleeping at risk of deportation. Leading homelessness charities have called for these rules to be repealed.
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Rehabilitation and resettlement needs of minority ethnic prisoners
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Lack of safe homes for women leaving prison
The Safe Homes for Women Leaving Prison initiative has published a new report exploring how the current system is leading thousands of women to be released from prison with nowhere to live.
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Substance use in prisons
HM Prison and Probation Service has published a new report exploring substance use in prisons. It considers the wider cultural features of prison that may have an impact on levels of drug use. Russell Webster has published a useful blog summarising findings.
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Smarter community sentences
The Centre for Justice Innovation has published a report calling on the government to take opportunities including the upcoming unification of the management of offenders within the National Probation Service and the new Sentencing White Paper to create smarter community sentences.
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Covid-19: mental and physical health in prisons
The Prison Reform Trust CAPPTIVE project has published its second briefing on how prisons are responding to Covid-19. This time they raise the concern that extended periods in cells are likely to have a widespread and enduring impact on prisoners' mental and physical health.
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COVID-19 Resources from the sector
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Homeless Link updates
Homeless Link has called for the Government to implement 'Everybody In' for a second time to ensure people sleeping rough can stay safe during the new national lockdown. They have also responded to reported Government proposals to deport foreign nationals who are rough sleeping.
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News from Mind
Mind has called for the Government to support people with mental health problems during the new national lockdown and make sure additional support is in place to protect those with serious mental health problems.
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Collective Voice
Collective Voice has responded to the Office for National Statistics drug related deaths figures for 2019 calling on Government to use the second Black Review and the 2021 Addictions Strategy to create a vision of how drug and alcohol harms will be reduced and routes into recovery maximised.
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Leadership Programme: lived experience in the criminal justice system
The Lived Experience Movement at the Centre for Knowledge Equity and Clore Social Leadership are offering a free online leadership programme for lived experience leaders with direct, first-hand experience of the criminal justice system. Deadline for applications is Monday 9th November 2020 at 11.59pm.
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System leadership during Covid-19
The Golden Key Partnership is hosting a webinar next week sharing learning about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on people with complex needs and outlining a written manifesto they have produced for their client group.
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Psychological approaches to support people facing multiple disadvantage
Opportunity Nottingham is holding an event on Tuesday 17th November focusing on psychological approaches and interventions to support people facing multiple disadvantage. Places can be booked via their website.
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Housing First conference 2020
Homeless Link is hosting a two day online Housing First Conference on 3rd-4th December 2020. Places can be booked now.
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Webinar: Homelessness Winter Transformation Fund
Homeless Link, in partnership with Housing Justice, will be hosting a free webinar on the new Homelessness Winter Transformation Fund on 5th November 2-3pm. Places can be booked via their website.
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Keeping you up to date at this time
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Our priority in this difficult period remains people facing multiple disadvantage and the people who support them. If you have any questions, comments or issues you would like to raise, please contact any member of the MEAM team.
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