The Review of Finance and Expenditure for Homeless Services in Dublin report is published by the Homeless Agency Partnership as part of the evidence base produced in 2008 that helps us better understand how well we are working towards achieving and realising our 2010 vision to end long-term homelessness and the need to sleep rough in Dublin, set out in our action plan A Key to the Door. Together with Counted In, 2008 and the Evaluation of Homeless Services 2008 Series, the Homeless Agency Partnership has used the evidence base from these three reports to generate a detailed number of recommendations for action.

The evidence and recommendations were accepted by the Board of the Partnership in December 2008 and have helped inform the basis of the Partnership’s agreed submission to Government on implementing the new national strategy The Way Home (2008-2013). In our submission, the Board is taking this opportunity to put forward to all stakeholders in the Homeless Agency Partnership a proposed blueprint for change, which is about creating the conditions required to realise the vision of A Key to the Door. Our submission is about the change in policy and service provision required from January 2009 in order to make the Partnership’s 2010 vision a reality for those experiencing homelessness in Dublin.