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The Homelessness Code of Guidance highlights the importance of co-production and partnership working to preventing & relieving homelessness. Under the Homelessness Reduction Act (from 03 April 2018) local housing authorities will be required to provide additional support to all people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness. The number of people sleeping rough in England has increased by 73% over the last 3 years and is predicted to rise by 76% in the next decade. Shelter has calculated that in England 268,330 people are either rough sleeping, single people in hostels, households owed the statutory duty by a local authority or homeless households being accommodated by social services. As the cross-party MPs of the Public Accounts Committee reported, the extent of homelessness across England is a national crisis. |
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Homeless Link: Working together to prevent homelessness HL: Record number of rough sleeper alerts sent in 24-hour period HL: Women’s Hidden Homelessness Looking for good practice guidance to support you in your work? We need to encourage & support ‘good’ landlords |
