Fast track your homelessness skills and knowledge
Locata Academy is a comprehensive, flexible learning experience designed to enhance your homelessness professional development.
Whether you are new to the field or an experienced professional, explore our courses, enrol, and start today. On joining you can track your progress, engage with the learning units, and quickly develop your expertise as a homelessness officer.
Simply choose the pricing plan that suits you.
10 blocks of e-learning designed for homelessness officers in England
Training videos from housing expert Andy Gale
70 plus recordings delivering more than four hours of homelessness coaching
Multiple choice questions to test your progress at the end of each block of learning
Personal Certificates of Accomplishment
Comprehensive links to legal provisions, guidance and further reading
Downloadable slides, transcripts, toolkits and template decision letters
For all levels of experience
This covers three blocks of learning that will walk you through the core information and skills you require to be an effective homelessness officer. We start with an introduction to homelessness itself and the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 before considering applications and assessments from individuals and household who are or at risk of becoming homeless. We complete this part of the course by covering the processes and assessments needed to award a Prevention or Relief Duty.
- Understand homelessness legislation and its real-world application
- Improve skills in evaluating cases and identifying needs
- Develop proficiency in making homelessness duty decisions
This section of the course will significantly develop your ability to address homelessness. We look in detail at Temporary Accommodation and the processes and procedures of Interim Duty, Referrals and Priority Need. We also set out what the Main Duty and Other Duties are and how to apply them alongside a comprehensive examination of the legislative framework underpinning Intentional Homelessness.
- Learn the processes involved in managing Temporary Accommodation
- Understand how to manage Main and Other Duty cases
- Develop strong knowledge of Intentional Homelessness criteria
This section rounds off the full course and delivers the final blocks of learning that will help you become a highly accomplished homelessness officer. We take you through the techniques and tips to enable you to prepare and deliver sensitive interviews. We also do a deep delve into casework management and decision-making, putting prevention casework into practice and the assessment of applications to a councils housing register.
- Develop high level proficiency in the preparation and deliver of comprehensive interviews for applicants
- Detailed understanding on how to improve casework and decision-making, leading to better standards and improved information gathering
- Expert knowledge across the legal requirements, policy and the law in the assessment and qualification for housing registers
Take a look at the overview and curriculum to find out what is covered in each of the Blocks.
