On the eve of Labour Party Conference, the CSJ are taking a plan to end rough sleeping to Liverpool - Housing First. The CSJ first came across the Housing First model in 2016, having engaged with a local project in Camden, which in turn was inspired by the Finnish Housing First model. The CSJ then visited Finland to develop a focused proposal for England, subsequently taking then Housing Secretary Sajid Javid on an official visit to Helsinki to view the impact of the approach on the ground. The project convinced the government to allocate £28 million for the three city-region pilots and to build the evidence base for the effectiveness of Housing First in England and how it should be rolled out more widely. In 2017, the CSJ published its first report, Housing First, followed by a larger paper, Close to Home, which outlined how the government could scale up Housing First across England. Following the success of the city-region pilots, the CSJ's latest report, No Place Like Home, lays out the steps that Government should take to put an end to rough sleeping. By rolling out Housing First nationally, and doubling the number of places available, we believe we can help the most chronic rough sleepers out of the cycle of homelessness. Alongside Chief Exec Andy Cook and Senior Researcher Josh Nicholson, we are joined by four champions of our proposals: - Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester - Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region - Steve Morgan, Founder of the Steve Morgan Foundation and founder and former Chair of housebuilders Redrow - Matthew Torbitt, Senior Fellow at the CSJ.

Read more at: www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/no-place-like-home

For our latest report Absent Ambition, we travelled across the UK talking to teachers and parents about the root causes of the absence crisis. Listen to Chief Executive Andy Cook and Senior Researcher Dan Lilley dissect these interviews and present our findings🤔 Thank you to CSJ Alliance Charity One-Eighty, the Steve Rigby Foundation, Mark Billyield and Yasmin Manzoor for their participation in this podcast. Read the full report here: centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/absent-ambition.

New CSJ analysis in our latest report, Unequal Returns, show that despite despite tens of billions invested in Pupil Premium (PP), outcomes for disadvantaged pupils remain deeply uneven. Some schools are seeing their attainment gap widen. Our report argues that the PP funding model must evolve into a smarter, more precise system – one that better reflects the realities of modern disadvantage and delivers real impact for the children it was created to help. To discuss its findings and the future of PP, we will be joined by:

• Sir Trevor Phillips OBE, broadcaster and former EHRC Chair
• Sir Kevan Collins, lead non-executive board member at the Department for Education
• Professor Lee Elliot Major OBE, UK's first Social Mobility Professor and co-creator of the Pupil Premium Toolkit
• Emma Bonnin, Headteacher of Pakeman Primary School.
• Mercy Muroki, Centre for Social Justice