What does success for TAN look like in a year from now?

The success for TAN is that people actually talk to each other and that people can learn from different types of organisations and different things that are happening across the country. Ideally, there would be enough affordable housing that people didn't really need very much temporary accommodation, but the reality is that's not the case. So I think in the first year if you could get different, for example, local authorities speaking to property developers, or people who want to invest money in doing temporary accommodation partnership; working between local authorities, housing associations, developers, and funders it would be great to see. Actually a scheme being set up using modern methods of construction within the first year and I think if you're thinking longer term then you're thinking about more of that but also the focus actually is on the quality of the accommodation, which is so important so we're not just talking about numbers. We're talking about quality, we're talking about value for money, the things have to be reasonable costs, the investor needs to make a return but more importantly the local authority shouldn't be going bankrupt. By using that, I think that if we were able to convince the Government to make steps towards alleviating the issues and helping out with the issues that would also be great.