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Get help and advice from your local council if you're homeless or about to lose your home.
Housing options and support for veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
Your council must help if you’re legally homeless or will become homeless within 8 weeks. Help may include advice, emergency housing or longer-term housing.
Information and guidance for local authorities compiling the P1E quarterly data returns on homelessness.
Guidance for organisations that provide housing or homelessness services to the armed forces community
Operating principles for commissioners and providers of night shelters for people experiencing rough sleeping.
Your council can help you after a fire in your home - Council, emergency housing, Red Cross, fire safety
When and how council statutory homelessness duties apply within the scheme.
If you're under 18, you cannot usually rent your own home, but you'll be on the priority list for council housing - your rights and what happens if you want to leave home
Landlords need to follow certain procedures when evicting tenants - find out about eviction notices, harassment and illegal evictions, and going to court
Find out about legacy health, recognition, return to civilian life, support from the voluntary sector, commemoration and payment schemes.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering some humanitarian issues that may arise during the recovery phase of an emergency in the UK.
Includes help with homelessness, evictions and squatting
How to live with your sponsor, what to expect from them and what to do if things don't work out.
General and specialist support and advice about housing and homelessness, and help with household items and clothing.
Nearly £220 million given to councils across the country to help deliver over 800 homes for rough sleepers and help prevent families from becoming homeless
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