SVP Homeless Services

SVP believes that no one should ever have to sleep rough, under any circumstances, and that everyone has a right to a safe, secure and comfortable home.

HOMELESS SERVICES

The Society’s emergency accommodation services continued to offer over 300 beds of emergency accommodation per night across the country in 10 hostel services with additional support services through Tenancy Sustainment Officers in Cork and Limerick city and Outreach Workers in our Carlow and Letterkenny services.

We provided a total of 110,690 spaces to our service users in 2019, on average 303 spaces per day. 651 people were admitted during the year, consisting of 635 adults and 16 children from five families to our Longford and Letterkenny services. These numbers include 639 additional places for the Cold Weather Initiative in collaboration with our statutory partners in 8 separate Local Authorities and 5 HSE CHO offices.

In 2019 we continued to focus on implementing the quality standards framework for homeless services, through the ongoing work of our peer-led Quality Standards Implementation Team (Q-SIT), a structure which is tasked with promoting and championing the quality standards across services; supporting their implementation; putting in place tools and supports; identifying priority areas for focus on improvements facilitating learning across services; identifying policy issues and gaps and providing feedback on issues to the Trustees. The Q-SIT is currently planning a series of internal quality assessments in 2020 to support the ongoing implementation of the standards and to prepare for external inspections by the funders in due course. svp.ie/homelessservices