1. Financial investment in homelessness 2003-2014
2014: £26m (approx £6m Floating Support) -
Total investment: £236m

2. Supporting homeless people to flourish

3. Investment in service development
Capacity doubled to 5000 places
3,200 floating support places
130 services

4. Recent commissioning & innovation
Focus on north west ( )

5. Place prevention at the forefront of delivery Reduce length of time people experience homelessness
Floating Support
Enniskillen: tenancy sustainment pilot 2013
Foyle Women‘s Aid: floating support extended to Limavady & Strabane
Women's Aid: criminal justice support specialists
Methodist City Mission: resettlement
Clarendon St: resettlement

6. Remove need to sleep rough
Foyle Haven extension, harm reduction services & community hubs.
FHASS – extension of floating support to harm reduction focus

7. House in the Wells: development of ‘wet’ environment
Night support service

8. Improve services to vulnerable households
Remodelling of Simon Community NI Bond’s Hill for PBNI & complex needs beds & 17 new beds for general support at Melrose Terrace
Praxis: 15 units, Derry
Triangle: 20 units – Antrim, Ballymena and Larne
Action for Children: 8/10 units – Enniskillen
Sleight: 8/10 units - Omagh

9. Quality, Governance and Accountability

10. ‘...change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat...’
The Duke of Edinburgh

11. Challenges Ring fencing and Departmental responsibility
The problem of inflation
Tendering and procurement
More than a transaction – outcome reporting
Rethinking our options

12. Opportunities Listening to our users Contracts not grants
Synthesis of homelessness and SP structures
Working to our strengths and sharing them
A new focus and new vision