Your location: The Task Force agenda: abolishing priority need is the most radical step yet
September 2005
Written by Liz Nicholson, Director, Shelter Scotland
Liz Nicholson, as a former member of the Homelessness Task Force , and a member of its predecessor, the Homelessness Monitoring Group , introduces our series of articles on the effect of the abolition of priority need within different social groups. She then goes on to outline the challenges inherent in bringing about the abolition successfully, so that it contributes to everyone in Scotland having a home by 2012.