Past event presentations

Scotland’s equality law and housing conference- to understand the impact of equality law on homelessness, evictions and housing allocations in Scotland.

We are now taking bookings for our Scottish Empty Homes Conference 2017.

Our annual Private Rented Sector Conference will take place on Wednesday the 25th of October 2017 in Edinburgh.

We are pleased to welcome speakers from across the UK to talk about a variety of topics relating to our current campaign, Far From Fixed.

Presentations from our sixth annual conference.

The 2016 private rented sector conference will consider the implementation of various legislative changes.

Funding in the homeless sector: Beyond the cuts.

Scotland's annual private rented sector conference, hosted this year at the Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor on the 24th June 2015.

How do you put into action a person-centred approach to homelessness?

Speaker presentations can be downloaded from the conference.

Download presentations from the previous conference.

Housing, homelessness, advice and prevention: joining the dots post-2012.

Shelter Scotland and the Scottish Association of Landlords teamed up to host a conference launching the Scottish Government’s Private Rented Sector Strategy.

To mark the 2012 Commitment to equalise rights to housing for homeless people in Scotland.

2012 saw a lot of developments in the world of private sector empty homes work. We have new officers, projects and pilots; new funding opportunities; and new powers on the way.

A look at the private renting sector post-2012.

Shelter Scotland’s major homelessness conference marked the final year before Scotland’s landmark homelessness legislation comes into effect, guaranteeing the right of every unintentionally homeless person to a permanent home.

This half-day seminar was held in Glasgow on 20 January 2011 to look at best practice from a range of organisations, focusing on tenancy support and targeted interventions to help maintain tenancies.

This half-day seminar was held in Edinburgh on 11 January 2011 to look at the implications for housing sector staff and service users of planned cuts in housing benefit and changes already made to local

This half-day seminar was held in Edinburgh on 11 January 2011 to look at how local authorities and housing associations can benefit, as part of their homelessness prevention strategy, from a proactive approach to managing

This one-day Shelter conference, held in Glasgow on 17 June 2010, looked at implementation of the Home Owner and Debtor Protection (Scotland) Act 2010, due to come into force in September.

This half-day conference was held in Edinburgh on 19 April 2010 to look at plans to reform the private rented sector through the proposed Bill and explore the options for more fundamental reform of the

This one-day Shelter conference, held in Edinburgh on 30 March 2010, explored the latest policy developments across all services which interact with homeless and badly housed children and young people.

This half day conference, on the new proposals for the Housing Bill, was held on the 3rd March 2010 at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

This half-day conference was held jointly by Shelter and COSLA, with the support of Orchard & Shipman plc and the Scottish Government, in Edinburgh on 23 February 2010.

This one-day Shelter conference, held in Edinburgh on 3 November 2009, gave delegates the opportunity to discuss the recommendations of the Scottish Government’s Repossessions Group and the current Home Owner and Debtor Protection Bill.

This one-day conference, held in Glasgow on 6 October 2009, gave delegates the opportunity to share experiences and to discuss new ideas around meeting 2012 and ending homelessness.

This one day conference, held in Perth on 24 June 2009, looked at the outcomes from the Governments recent review and future developments for the private rented sector.

A half-day seminar held jointly by Shelter and the SFHA in Glasgow on 29 April 2009. This event was an opportunity to share current examples and learn how RSLs contribute to homelessness policy.

This one-day conference, held in Edinburgh on 5 February 2009, explored a number of measures and services that can help people stay in their accommodation and avoid the crisis of homelessness.

Gavin Corbett of Shelter Scotland speaks about ambition in Scottish housing at this Holyrood events conference on 8th December 2008.

This Shelter seminar was the first opportunity for the Scottish housing sector to discuss what it might want to see in the next Housing Bill and how best to advance its proposals.

This one-day conference, held in Glasgow on 20 October 2008, gave delegates the opportunity to share their experiences of managing local housing allowance and hear about future changes being proposed to housing benefit.

This one-day conference, held in Edinburgh on 27 August 2008, brought together landlords and letting agents, local authority and voluntary sector staff to look at recent changes and future plans for the private rented sector

This one-day Shelter conference, held in Glasgow on 23 June 2008, brought together housing practitioners from local authorities, RSLs and voluntary organisations to look at recent progress and future plans for meeting the 2012 homelessness

This half-day Shelter seminar, held in Edinburgh on 22 May 2008, aimed to bring together key commentators on Scottish housing and the economy to look at the current state of the Scottish housing market and

This one-day Shelter conference, held in Edinburgh on 31 January 2008, explored a number of measures and services that help tenants to stay in their accommodation. It provided an opportunity for delegates to hear about

This half day seminar held in Edinburgh on 20 November 2007 officially launched a practical resource pack called But Why Here on community engagement developed with support from Communities Scotland.

This one-day conference, held in Glasgow on 1 October 2007, brought together people from a wide range of backgrounds to share experience as to what progress has been made and what still needs to be

Shelter and the Centre for Scottish Public Policy held a Chatham House Rules round table discussion on planning for affordable housing on Friday 28th September 2007. It was attended by experts from across the housing

This one-day Shelter conference, held in Perth on 28 August 2007, focused on current legislation, key issues affecting tenants and best practice in the private rented sector.

This half-day Shelter seminar, held in Glasgow on 14 June 2007, aimed to update advisers' skills on dealing with repairs cases in relation to the new Repairing Standard for housing in the private rented sector.

This one-day Shelter conference, held in Edinburgh on 24 May 2007, aimed to set out the housing challenge in Scotland for the next parliamentary term and beyond. High profile speakers from all housing sectors were

This one-day Shelter conference, held in Dumfries on 29 January 2007, was held to share experiences and discuss solutions and innovations to a wide range of rural housing issues. The event also looked to the

This one-day Shelter conference, held in Glasgow on 29 November 2006, looked at the current challenges being faced by local authorities and partner organisations in meeting the duty to provide temporary accommodation to all homeless

This one-day conference, held on Thursday 24 August 2006, examined the many changes taking place in the Scottish private rented sector as a result of the new landlord registration scheme and the Housing (Scotland) Act

This one-day conference to mark the Homelessness Monitoring Group's (HMG) annual report was held on Monday 24 April 2006. You can find out more about the day and download presentations from the event here.

Shelter's seminar on the use of Section 5 referrals on 31 January 2006 in Glasgow, was attended by over 100 practitioners from across the housing sector. The event is summarised below and you can also

Here you can read a summary of the recent seminar on affordable housing for rural communities, hosted by Shelter Scotland on 28 October 2005 and download PDFs of the presentations that were given there.

Here you can download PDFs of the presentations that were given at the recent seminar on creating a vibrant private sector, hosted by Shelter Scotland on 3 June 2005.

Here you can download PDFs of the presentations that were given at the recent seminar on rights for hostel dwellers, hosted by Shelter Scotland on 30 November 2004.

Here you can download PDFs of the presentations that were given at the recent seminar on antisocial behaviour, hosted by Shelter Scotland.

This seminar, held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 4 September 2003, marked the launch of Shelter Scotland's CHiP project.

This one-day conference, held in Glasgow on 24 March 2009, explored the latest developments in policy and practice across the housing, homelessness and children’s sectors.

How people who rent can make renting fit and fair for all.

Join us for the Generation Rent Product Forge where technical and entrepreneurial minds will collaborate with the sector to develop new ideas that improve the renting experience.