Courses can be tailor-made from the following elements:
- Understanding the current prevention duties
- The key concepts of homelessness law, including who is homeless, what is means to be vulnerable and hence in priority need, and when someone can be found intentionally homelessness.
- How local authorities should process applications under the HRA
- The new approach to preventing homelessness – including those deemed not to be in priority need
- The relief duty owed all those who present to local authorities as actually homeless”The Personalised Housing Plan” and how to ensure that it is lawful.
- Recognising what decisions relating to the new duties can be challenged by review, and when these are likely to be successful