Press Release

Ways to work: making welfare reform work for homeless people

13 January 2006

1-day conference reflecting on the DWP’s green papers on benefit reforms Wednesday 25 January 2006, at RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD

• For full details please visit www.homeless.org.uk/events/waystowork

The Government is aiming to get 80 per cent of the working age population into work.

How does this objective impact on homeless people?

99 per cent of people living in hostels are currently out of work.

How can we effectively turn this around?

This timely event offers an opportunity to:

• explore the implications of the proposed reforms
• engage with and influence decision makers in central government
• learn from best practice case studies in employability and social enterprise
• find out about service users’ experiences and perspectives

Speakers include:

• Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare
• Eva Hamilton, Director, Business Action on Homelessness, Business in the Community
• Maria Donaghue-Mills, Group Chief Executive, Novas Group
• Jenny Edwards, Chief Executive, Homeless Link
• Richard Frame, Chief Executive, Solas Cymru
• Debbie Scott, Chief Executive, Tomorrow’s People
• Linda Butcher, Chief Executive, Off the Streets and Into Work

Contact:

Jo O’Rourke,
Conference Manager,
Homeless Link, First Floor,
10-13 Rushworth Street
London SE1 0RB
020 7960 3032 (direct)

www.homeless.org.uk

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