Southampton Homelessness Impact Summit

This one-day summit brings together policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and people with lived experience to explore how homelessness policy and best practice are currently shaping up nationally, and what this looks like on the ground in Southampton. The event is specifically designed for those working in or alongside homelessness and inclusion health within the city.

Through national and local panel discussions, interactive networking, and themed workshops, the summit will focus on shared challenges, emerging evidence, and practical solutions across homelessness systems, services, and support. The day will create space for honest discussion, shared learning, and cross-sector collaboration, with a strong emphasis on how national policy translates into local delivery.

The Southampton Homelessness Impact Summit is free to attend, with advance registration required. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, and places are intended to support broad participation across the local homelessness system, including people with lived experience.

Info: This panel will explore where homelessness policy and strategic thinking currently sit at a national level. Speakers will reflect on government perspectives, workforce development and system pressures, health and inclusion health considerations, and the role of national data and evidence in shaping effective responses to homelessness.

Info: Focusing on the Southampton context, this panel will examine how homelessness strategy and services are working on the ground. Discussion will bring together Southampton City Council, expert by experience, mental health, and substance use perspectives alongside service provider experiences.

Info: Interactive values-based networking aiming to make meaningful connections and start to think about solutions for challenges discussed in the morning panel discussions.

Info: The afternoon workshops will offer practical, interactive spaces for further discussion and shared learning. Sessions will be shaped by sector insight and thematic analysis, covering barriers to engagement, multi-agency case management, homelessness accommodation, stigma, trauma and relational approaches to support, multiple exclusion homelessness, and the experiences of women.

Info: The summit will close with a final plenary bringing together key themes and reflections from across the day. This session will highlight emerging priorities, consider next steps for policy and practice, and offer closing remarks.

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