Nudge, Nudge…wink, wink

Today “The House of Lords science and technology committee said ministers seemed to be mistaken in their use of what is known as the nudge theory.”  ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14187802 ) Nudge theory is the idea that changes are made to the social and physical environment without legislation that encourage (or discourage) specific behaviour. One example of this would [...]

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Where do homeless people come from

The Children’s Society yesterday reported on the numbers of pre-teen runaways increasing (link below) and the risks that these young people face once they have fled their home or care. The report noted that a child runs away from home every five minutes in the UK and one in three of these will go unreported. [...]

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What does Simon on the Streets actually do?

Jon, one of our support workers shares the experiences of a day ‘at the office’ in Huddersfield: As I was walking down to the Mission to meet Tim I bumped in to Julie who I have been doing some short term work with regarding her abusive relationship and domestic violence. She had blood on her [...]

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Who Do We Support? – Alice

I first met Alice when I received a call from a drop-in centre saying that they had someone who urgently had to go to the Homelessness Advice and Prevention service for emergency accommodation but would need someone to accompany her.  They can not always accompany service users themselves as the centre is generally very busy [...]

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