Group training (5-18 staff): Commercial rate £955; Standard / Concessionary £890 + plus trainer’s expenses + VAT
‘Engaging and inclusive trainer. Enjoyable training. Thanks!’
Manager, North Herts Homes
Course contains
- An explanation of when the duty to provide temporary accommodation is triggered
- Suitability of temporary accommodation and the law
- Temporary accommodation and out of area placements post Nzolameso and Westminster
- Housing status, security of tenure and temporary accommodation
- Ending temporary accommodation
- The relationship between terminating temporary accommodation and discharging homelessness duties.
Learning outcomes
After this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the housing status of those occupying temporary accommodation
- Understand the steps required to legally terminate temporary accommodation
- Benchmark whether services are legally compliant.
Suitable for
Anyone involved in temporary accommodation, including local authority homelessness and housing options officers, allocations officers, housing managers, housing association staff, not-for-profit and private landlords, housing lawyers and advisers.
Meet the trainers
Louella Crisfield
Lou has been a freelance trainer for Shelter since 2004. Lou currently works as a housing caseworker at Miles & Partners LLP in East London. Prior to that she worked for an East London Law Centre as a housing caseworker for 15 years and for Mind as a housing and welfare rights adviser for two years. Lou has over 20 years’ experience in the field of housing law. Lou has a particular interest in homelessness, security of tenure, housing for young people and housing or public law remedies for people without recourse to public funds. She has produced a wide range of training materials and presented courses to all levels of delegates in her work with Shelter and her work in the Law Centre and currently at Miles & Partners.
