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Derventio Housing Trust launches powerful e-scooter safety video after serious house fire leads to residents being evacuated featured image
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Derventio Housing Trust launches powerful e-scooter safety video after serious house fire leads to residents being evacuated

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Derventio Housing Trust publishes Annual Report 2024–25, highlighting impact for over 1,000 people

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Community generosity brings festive cheer to Derventio residents

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Derventio Housing Trust delighted after once homeless residents rate their landlord well above national average in UK-wide survey

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Derventio launches Christmas Box Appeal to spread warmth and hope this festive season

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National Lottery players help Swindon Derventio Housing Trust residents get active in Stanton Park

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Amazing community support brings smiles to people living in supported housing

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Derventio Housing Trust reports some of UK’s best results in first national post Grenfell social landlords survey

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Here at Derventio Housing Trust we are very pleased to hear that, at long last, rough sleeping is set to be decriminalised, as the government scrap the 200 year old Vagrancy Act.

Originally introduced way back in1824 for the punishment of ‘idle and disorderly persons, and rogues and vagabonds’ the Vagrancy Act will be formally repealed on Monday 29 June, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has confirmed.

Housing Secretary @Steve Reed MP welcomed the move, stating it would help shift the approach to homelessness "from punishment to prevention".

Its removal will now be facilitated by new powers within Labour’s Crime and Policing Act, which was passed in April. These new provisions, which include offences such as facilitating begging for gain and trespassing with the intention of committing a crime, are designed to fill any legal "gap" left by the old law's abolition.

The formal repeal of the Vagrancy Act is widely celebrated by charities and campaigners as a "watershed" in addressing homelessness.

Crisis chief executive Matt Downie said the 1824 Act had “punished people who have been forced to sleep on the streets” and “pushed people in already vulnerable situations away from support services and into the shadows for fear of being penalised”.

“This is a watershed moment which marks the end of a deeply cruel policy of criminalising people because they are homeless,” he said.

Housing Secretary Mr Reed said: “Homeless people are not criminals, they are people who need help.

“By repealing the outdated Vagrancy Act, we are shifting from punishment to prevention, alongside our investment to tackle homelessness for good.”

Freedom of information responses from 29 police forces across England and Wales show officers have arrested 1,173 people since 2021 for offences under the archaic 19th-century act. We welcome this move away from condemnation and towards compassion for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
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At Derventio Housing Trust we do things differently. We don’t believe in labels and stereotypes. Everyone we work with is unique, with their own experience, skills and aspirations.

That’s why feedback like this is so rewarding, and so important. From a resident to their Housing Support Office, these words demonstrate why people are at the heart of what we do.

“Thank you for being so much more than a housing officer to me. During my darkest times, your unwavering support and help kept me moving forward. I truly wouldn't be where I am today, or achieving what I am now, without you in my corner. Thank you for everything.

Together we are an unstoppable team thank you again for being my amazing housing officer you go above and beyond for people with your big heart. (⁠ノ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ノ⁠*⁠.⁠✧”

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Once drink gets into your system you start making a fool of yourself. You’ll do anything for a drink. It makes me sick to think that’s the person I once was. I nearly lost contact with my children altogether through alcohol. What was good was that the people at Growing Lives never judged my addi...
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