DSHG partners have been working together to improve their services for homeless people across Devon over many years. A Devon Homelessness Coordinator has been employed to facilitate this work since July 2003.

In that time the partnership has achieved much, some of which is detailed below in the completed work section:

Securing an Effective Voice for Devon

Collective responses to publications and consultations

Facilitation of workshop at National Shelter Conference

This website!

Innovation and Good Practice in Delivery

Devon County Council LPSA for youth homelessness

Sharing information on homelessness prevention

Devonwide Supported Lodgings

Developing Streamlined and Consistent Strategic and Operational Processes

Shelter Mystery Shopping Exercise

Domestic Abuse Code of Good Practice

Joint Training

Maintaining a Consistent Housing Evidence Base

Consistent Homelessness Prevention Monitoring