Finland has seen unusual levels of success in reducing rough sleeping and long-term homelessness. Can its learnings inform strategies in the UK? Juha Kaakinen, CEO of the Y-Foundation – a key player in this process – offers his view of the best way forward
While policy innovations in many countries have reduced the immediate risks for rough sleepers during COVID-19, these interventions are typically short-term. So what's working in the UK and around the world, and how can short-term interventions be turned into long-term solutions to homelessness?
When Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the country’s stay-at-home order, her stated priority was for educational settings to reopen again for all children and young people as quickly as possible. So what evidence has been used to inform the decision of when and how to reopen schools in Scotland? And what lessons have been learned along the way?
A particularly strong theme was the need to use this summer not simply for UK schoolchildren to catch up academically, but to give them a chance to recover in every other way: in relationships, in their wellbeing, and in living life to the full.
