LC482 Policy & Strategy: Report on Shelter and Homeless Reduction Act

This report provides an analysis of Shelter, a non-voluntary charity, and its strategies in relation to the Homeless Reduction Act of 2017. The Act aims to prevent homelessness in England by placing legal obligations on local authorities to support those at risk. The report discusses Shelter's aims, scope of work, service provision, policy research, and campaigning efforts. It identifies social problems such as loss of housing and eviction, and it examines the document's main findings and principles, including collectivism and dignity. The report concludes that homelessness is a serious issue in the UK, and the Homeless Reduction Act, along with Shelter's initiatives, plays a crucial role in addressing it.

Policy and Strategy

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Discussion of the aims of Shelter and its scope of work in relation to service provision, and
policy research and campaigning...........................................................................................1
Discussion of the social problem with the identification of major issue................................4
Discussion of the main findings and principles of chosen document....................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The policy which is considered for this report is homeless reduction act of 2017. This act
was introduced in April 30th, 2019 and also brought new legal obligations on local authorities so
that every person who is homeless or at the risk of becoming homeless will tends to gain access
ability towards effective support instead of their status as long as they need proper help. The
main objective of this homeless reduction act is to prevent the high rate of homelessness in
England. The primary welfare ideology that impact this policy (homeless reduction act) is
welfare state (Brown and Wincup, 2020). This type of government leads to put emphasis on
promoting and protecting the social and economic well-being of their citizen. The housing act
also put emphasis on doing the same by offering effective housing system and provide proper
opportunity to every individual in order to gain houses for living and reduce forces that bring
homelessness in UK.
The basic welfare principle to which this policy is concerned shows the intention to enhance
economic and social wellness of individuals to have a house for living which is linked but all of
these factors with the whole community. The chosen document for this report is homeless
reduction act and opted company is Shelter which is a non-voluntary charity entity who organise
campaigns to reduce the homelessness and bad housing in UK. The report leads to put focus on
the aims and objectives of shelter and its scope of working in regard of the services for
prevention policy search and campaigning. Along with this, the primary focus of this report is on
the social problems and objectives which are highlighted in the document considering the
principles and arguments of the chosen document.
MAIN BODY
Discussion of the aims of Shelter and its scope of work in relation to service provision, and
policy research and campaigning
The overall objective of chosen charity company “Shelter” is to offer campaigns that seek
to end the homelessness issues in UK and also offer advice and advocacy to the people who are
on edge to being homeless. The company tends to put emphasis on tackling the legislative issues
which are concerned with the homelessness for the creation of laws that support ending
homelessness in the country. The company leads to support the cause of ending homelessness in
UK by several initiatives and strategies. On the local level the firm offer suitable advice and
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support in person to the individuals who are facing problems which are related to homelessness.
The suggestion is personalised as it considers the condition faced by each person so that they are
able to find the best solution to get rid of homelessness.
The company tends to offer online expertise and general information that can be useful to
reclaim the deposits and also apply for homeless help services to get in touch with expert
advisor. Along with this, the another method in which company make sure the attainment of
goals which are related to the homelessness is to create a free emergency helpline which is to
open 365 days and 24*7 to answer the calls of people who are suffering from the homelessness
so that they are able to quickly respond to such people (Evans and et. al., 2019). Along with this,
another step taken by the charity to fight homelessness in UK is to offer legal services and offer
free of cost by the expert solicitors who go court to help people those were evicted from their
homes and other who are given legal notices regarding to eviction. The benefit of this initiative
to better the homelessness in UK which is to increase the awareness of charity to communities
who are at the high risk of homelessness and also enhances the accessibility to the services of
words by the charity as they have strong presence in both online and offline (Kostyo, Cardichon
and Darling-Hammond, 2018). Further, another benefit of this initiative is that it helps people
who are facing homelessness to get expert knowledge on several legal issues which are often
complicated for such people to understand and take instant action towards making their future
better and neglect homelessness.
The suitable actions which are taken by company to battle homelessness in UK that include
supporting strategic litigation. It also includes using legal teams and their expertise to being
suitable cases of homelessness an eviction to quote suitable individuals who are the part of
vulnerable communities that do not have to face injustice (Kilbourne and et. al., 2018). Along
with this, community organises and concerned with the clarity work with local communities to
determine the suitable issues and also develop manifestoes with instant action plan that can be
executed to teach small amount of candidates in local election. It is one of the most prominent
method to deal with homelessness issues in UK due to directly connect the problem with political
representative of location and also helps to develop campaign for the suitable and impactful
legislative policies that can bring change to the state of homelessness entire in UK.
The scope of work which is done by the shelter company in regard of homelessness in UK
which is huge due to the local and national campaigning is completed by the company that
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directly impact the legal and political structure of UK to take action against the homelessness
cases on country (Morgan, B., 2021). Besides from this, the huge extent of the school of charity
that is work done by the shelter company in terms of services provision which is determined by
the latest campaign of company in Birmingham where the focus was enhancing social housing.
The charity that worked with local community members within the temporary accommodation to
understand in which actions that can lead to the impactful outcome in everyday lives of such
people who are the high risk of homelessness in country.
The objective of company is to use this information to create a strong community of
temporary accommodation of people across the UK who offer proper support for renter’s reform
bill campaign. In this way, the company is capable to create overall community across the nation
and unite individuals to make big political changes that can have beneficial consequences for
several generations to come (Pauly, Wallace and Barber, 2018). This represent the school of
charity work done by the shelter in terms of service provision and the impact success of that
charity campaigns that can have on the state of homelessness in UK.
Charity policy research is defined as the process of organizing the investigation to the
uncertain factors of charities or several topics regarding to which that add cause and suggest
reduction of homelessness in region. Organizing charity policy reservists helps in terms of
developing effective policies for the charitable companies that can lead to bring long term
change for the manufactures of the charity. In that case, shelter is undertaken as the charity
company for which the policy research is organized by the company that support creation of
useful policies that make sure the investment which is being developed by the donors and
volunteer that is useful for the optimally and those who are beneficial of the charity to get the
best results from all the actions of the company (Baggett, Liauw and Hwang, 2018). For this,
suitable charity policy researchers that have position impact over the benefactors for the
particular charity as each resource and the effective actions that will be dedicated to accomplish
the cause the charity which is being defined as the act of mobilizing the forces and people to
impact others in order to impact and identified and expected social economic and cultural
change.
The focus of charity campaigns is to enhance the public awareness or modifications in the
public attitudes towards the particular topic on bringing the change in policy for the government
or public bodies by which they particular law that can be changed or preserved in regard of
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offering the particular outcome for the benefactors of the charity. In particular case for the shelter
the public and political awareness campaigns were launched by the company to put emphasis on
bringing changes in terms of state homelessness in UK (Neufeld and Rehm, 2018). These
campaigns helped the company to develop or gain donors and volunteer and also enhances the
public awareness regarding the critical problems and issues of homelessness like rough sleeping.
Hence, the company is being able to represent their opinion towards the political representatives
and impact the national policies on homelessness by such campaigns.
Discussion of the social problem with the identification of major issue
The major social issue which is being identified in the document undertake the loss of
housing by several individuals and eviction of people from the temporary accommodations. The
major issue that occur for several people due to substance abuse issue or loss of close family
member. Further, the inability of council to offer help to homeless people in finding new homes
lead towards rough sleeping (Murphy and Eghaneyan, 2018). Most of the people were in
situations like families with children and lack of respect by others due to homelessness. This
leads to push down the level of poverty as they are not able to gain employment regarding the
dignity within the society that move towards the downward spiral of such people towards
poverty.
Discussion of the main findings and principles of chosen document
The primary argument of the document is to take suitable actions against the homelessness
by offering statements to individuals who are facing problems during the rough sleeping. It is
important to launch strong policies regarding this issue due to which homelessness can be
eliminated from the society. The argument for this is that it will offer real security to every
individual in UK and also helps in creating morality in society. The value on which the policy
depends undertake the collectivism and dignity (Hargreaves and et. al., 2021). As the ideology
collectivism is one of the major impact of this policy as its objective is to strengthen the support
of welfare system and offer all the residents of UK but create the system that is helpful for each
individual to gain proper housing as it maintains equality among the individuals of society and
lower down the divide among the rich and poor. For this, the intention of homeless reduction act
is to make sure that the council is able to interfere in the time manner to prevent individuals from
becoming the homeless in the first place (Duke, 2020). It happens because an individual enters
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the state of homelessness as it becomes quite difficult to emerge from the poverty and the state of
the individuals along with their family to caught in poverty for the years.
CONCLUSION
From the preceding discussion, it has been summarised that the homelessness is considered
as the serious problem in UK. For this, the main legislative policy which is concerned with the
homelessness reduction act put emphasis on preventing rough sleeping and taking action to face
the issues of homelessness and also promote policies that bring huge change concerning to the
lives of individuals who face homelessness in UK. The suitable campaigns and charity policy
research conducted by the charity enterprises in regard of homelessness that plays an important
role in terms of introducing effective social and political change considering the rise of
homelessness in the country. Several welfare ideologies, principles and values that shape to the
policies and charitable organisations.
The major motive of this welfare regarding the creation of an egalitarian society in which
every person has opportunity for the development of their own home. The major social issue
regarding to the issue of homelessness shows the eviction and loss of homes. For this, the social
issues which are concerned to the other social issue like loss of close family member or
substance abuse issues. Lack of home lead towards the lifelong poverty of individuals like
finding a new home which is being filled with challenges for the vulnerable communities. It is
also important to take action against this issue in regard of offering every person in UK as the
safe and proper housing.
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