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Information about how to make your guests feel more comfortable in their new home, set expectations about how to live together and communicate with your guests.
This guidance contains sources of support available to sponsors.
What to do if your guest will be temporarily absent from your accommodation.
How to meet the accommodation needs of guests, including information about gas safety and information about bills and paying rent.
How guests can find rematches, and the how councils can support them. Includes how sponsors can continue to host.
Sets out the council’s responsibilities for when guests are asked to leave their accommodation due to unreasonable behaviour.
If your guests are not ready to leave sponsorship and move into their own alternative accommodation, but you can no longer accommodate them, they may want to find a new host.
Everything you need to know about how to become a sponsor including things to consider and thank you payments.
The role sponsors, the voluntary and community sector (VCS), and councils play in the scheme. Includes how tariff funding is designed for councils.
A checklist of things to consider before you can offer support to someone from Ukraine.
Information about what to do if you need to end your hosting arrangements for any reason.
Information for voluntary and community sector organisations (VCS) looking to responsibly make matches between sponsors and guests as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Information about next steps when you have sponsored a guest for 6 months.
Information about what to do if your guest will temporarily be absent from the UK.
What to do if any of the checks you make give cause for concern.
Find out when you need to pay VAT if you provide holiday accommodation, caravans and camping facilities.
Making the first (interim) payments to guests.
Information to help councils advise guests on opening a bank account.
Who can apply to the scheme, how the application process works, and the checks that authorities must complete.
Renting a room in your home out - Rent a Room Scheme, types of tenancy or licence, rent, bills, tax and ending a letting
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