<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Housing and homelessness articles from Community Care</title><link>http://www.communitycare.co.uk</link><description>Read housing and homelessness stories from Community Care as soon as they're published.</description><language>en-gb</language><copyright>Reed Business Information, 2006</copyright><generator /><lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:03:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Ivan Lewis: 25 schemes to benefit from £80m extra care fund</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/07/21/108901/ivan-lewis-25-schemes-to-benefit-from-80m-extra-care-fund.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/07/21/108901/ivan-lewis-25-schemes-to-benefit-from-80m-extra-care-fund.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Care services minister Ivan Lewis revealed today the 25 schemes that would benefit from £80m of government cash to build extra care housing over the next two years.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>News round up: Minister says college wrong not to admit teenager</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/07/04/108738/news-round-up-minister-says-college-wrong-not-to-admit-teenager.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/07/04/108738/news-round-up-minister-says-college-wrong-not-to-admit-teenager.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Other headlines in today's papers include:- Revitalised hostel takes a fresh approach to homelessness; Johnson deputy faces inquiry over alleged financial wrongdoing </description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:55:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Minister criticises college that refused to admit convicted teenager</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/07/04/108739/minister-criticises-college-that-refused-to-admit-convicted-teenager.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/07/04/108739/minister-criticises-college-that-refused-to-admit-convicted-teenager.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Other headlines in today's papers include:- Revitalised hostel takes a fresh approach to homelessness; Johnson deputy faces inquiry over alleged financial wrongdoing </description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:54:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ombudsman rebukes Kirkless and Sheffield over adaptation failings</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/07/04/108737/ombudsman-rebukes-kirkless-and-sheffield-over-adaptation-failings.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/07/04/108737/ombudsman-rebukes-kirkless-and-sheffield-over-adaptation-failings.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Local government ombudsman Anne Seex today rebuked two councils in separate cases for “serious failures” in arranging adaptations to the homes of people who had recently been made disabled. </description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:28:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>DCSF promises better deal for young runaways in action plan</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/17/108562/dcsf-promises-better-deal-for-young-runaways-in-action-plan.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/17/108562/dcsf-promises-better-deal-for-young-runaways-in-action-plan.html</guid><category>News</category><description>The Department for Children, Schools and Families has promised to tighten responsibilities on councils, police and other agencies in supporting young runaways, in an action plan published yesterday</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:11:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Whitehall blamed for older people dying before finances are sorted</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/17/108555/whitehall-blamed-for-older-people-dying-before-finances-are-sorted.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/17/108555/whitehall-blamed-for-older-people-dying-before-finances-are-sorted.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Other headlines in today's papers include:- Six year wait for social housing, families warned; Too posh to adopt?; We are trying to make school admissions as fair as possible</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:51:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>News round up: Older people dying before finances are sorted</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/17/108554/news-round-up-older-people-dying-before-finances-are-sorted.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/17/108554/news-round-up-older-people-dying-before-finances-are-sorted.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Other headlines in today's papers include:- Six year wait for social housing, families warned; Too posh to adopt?; We are trying to make school admissions as fair as possible</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:49:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The changing face of rough sleepers</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/13/108520/the-changing-face-of-rough-sleepers.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/13/108520/the-changing-face-of-rough-sleepers.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Despite a cut of two-thirds in the number of rough sleepers in the past 10 years, a further reduction seems elusive. Louise Tickle examines what more can be done </description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:38:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Homeless Link and DCLG bid to cut rough sleeping by EU migrants</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/12/108519/homeless-link-and-dclg-bid-to-cut-rough-sleeping-by-eu-migrants.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/12/108519/homeless-link-and-dclg-bid-to-cut-rough-sleeping-by-eu-migrants.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Homeless Link has launched a Department for Communities and Local Government-backed action plan to reduce the number of central and eastern European people sleeping rough in London. </description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:16:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Housing and Homelessness</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/10/106263/housing-and-homelessness.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/10/106263/housing-and-homelessness.html</guid><category>News</category><description>All our Housing and Homelessness related reviews</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:27:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>