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Weightmans LLP
9th Floor, 103 Colmore Row, Birmingham, West Midlands B3 3AG

ABOUT THE EVENT

We would ask our delegates to arrive at 103 Colmore Row for registration from 1.30pm on the ground floor.  Our guests will then be taken via the lifts to the 9th floor of 103 Colmore Row with the event starting promptly at 2pm.  The event will close at 4pm.  Teas and coffees will be available throughout the afternoon.

The agenda:

1.30pm - 2pm: Registration

2pm:  Welcome and introductions

2:05pm: Overview of the report and key findings

2:40pm – 3:20pm: National and Regional perspectives

3:20pm – 3:30pm: The lived experience view

3:30pm – 4pm: Q&A and panel discussion

4pm: Close

With special thanks to our research partners:

With special thanks to our event launch partners:

Our speakers for the event:

Thea Raisbeck has over 18 years’ experience in a range of advocacy, research, and strategy roles within the housing and homelessness sectors. Thea specialises in homelessness, supported housing, and gendered approaches to policy, practice, and provision. She is a skilled qualitative researcher with extensive experience of participatory and co-production methods.

Thea has researched and authored several reports which have had legislative, policy, and practice impact. This includes two pathbreaking reports on unregulated supported ‘exempt’ accommodation, which directly contributed to a change in legislation, and a toolkit on period poverty for the homelessness sector which was the first of its kind.

Thea is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Aston University, a research associate at the Centre for the New Midlands, and Chair of a domestic abuse charity.

Neelam Sunder

Neelam has over 20 years’ experience in the homelessness sector across voluntary and public organisations. She has worked extensively across the West Midlands to influence service improvement and drive systems change aimed at preventing and addressing homelessness.

Passionate about cross‑sector collaboration and coordinated interventions, Neelam joined the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) in 2018 to support the Homelessness Taskforce and its ambition to design out homelessness in all its forms. She currently leads a programme focused on developing a shared, cross‑sector approach to tackling the structural inequalities that contribute to homelessness. Her work centres on improving how service systems respond to people’s needs and how these systems connect with one another, ensuring they are inclusive and accessible to everyone, regardless of life circumstances.

​​​​​​​Jean Templeton

Jean has been Chief Executive of St Basils since 2000 and prior to that has over 20 years’ experience of managing housing and neighbourhood services in a number of Local Authorities in the North East and Midlands. St Basils is a registered Housing Association and Charity providing a range of accommodation and support for young people aged 16-25 who are homeless or at risk in Birmingham and West Midlands. 

Jean is Chair of the West Midlands Combined Authority’s Homelessness Taskforce and Chair of West Midlands Homelessness and Health Network and is a member of the Government’s Advisory Panel on Rough Sleeping and Homelessness. She was Chair of the national Youth Homelessness Parliament from 2013-2022. She is a member of Birmingham’s Strategic Partnership Board and Birmingham Social Housing Partnership Executive.

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