Commissioners must focus on long-term homelessness and draw multiple agencies together to provide tailored support, according to a report outlining the lessons from the first projects supported by the Homelessness Transition Fund.

The Department for International Development has accepted three out of four of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s recommendations about its unrestricted funding partnerships.

The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into the Public Safety Charitable Trust following a court ruling which effectively challenged the charity’s ability to continue claiming charitable rate relief on hundreds of mainly empty buildings it is leasing around the country.

Unite members at Equinox Care have voted for two days of strike action over proposed pay cuts of up to £6,000 a year.