As a member of the Scottish Government’s Temporary and Supported Accommodation Housing Benefit Subgroup, SHN has agreed to lead a short-term project working with homelessness and benefits practitioners to develop agreed guidance on the definitions of temporary accommodation for the purposes of housing benefit calculation to guide future decision-making.

For more information, please contact Tim Pogson.

We have delivered some successful training sessions on enforcement powers in the private sector.  This training aims to assist housing professionals who work with private with private owners, provide a working knowledge of enforcement powers and the Tenement (Scotland) Act 2004.

This training session can be tailored and delivered to your team.  For details, please contact Liz Dickson.

In 2010/11 we were commissioned to facilitate 4 Action Learning Sets as part of the national Learning Networks funded by the Scottish Government.

The summary reports from each set are publicly available and copies can be downloaded below.