This first European Conference on Quality in Homeless Services aims at providing participants with space for mutual learning and exploring the potential for developing a European Quality System for Homeless Services. This event is organised by FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with Homeless People, with the support of local partners – Caritas Accueil et Solidarité, Confédération Caritas Luxembourg and the University of Luxembourg. Quality in social services is an area of focus of FEANTSA work under its Annual Theme in 2011. In this context a European-wide mapping and stocktaking of quality provisions in homeless services is currently being carried out by FEANTSA national member organisations. Its objective is to identify the existing frameworks, their nature and quality dimensions as well as their evaluation by the service providers. The findings will be gathered in a European Report on Quality in social services from the perspective of services working with homeless people to be presented for the first time during the Conference on the 21st October. The European Report will be published by FEANTSA in November 2011 and will take into account the results of debates during the conference.