HOMELESSNESS: a national overview ’s end homelessness together Health and Wellbeing Board Stakeholder Network

HOMELESSNESS: a national overview

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Health and Wellbeing Board Stakeholder Network

#1: Understanding homelessness

HOMELESSNESS IN 2O14

• 32% of public have experienced homelessness or know someone who has. (* including sofa surfing, staying with friends) • Statutory homelessness (including those in temporary accommodation) • Non-statutory or ‘single’ homelessness • But the full picture is much more complex:

• Rough sleeping• Hidden homelessness (sofa surfing, squats)• People in unsuitable accommodation (eg overcrowding)


#2: Statutory homelessness trends







Q1 2010 Q1 2011 Q1 2012 Q1 2013 Q1 20140%

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33% 34% 34% 30% 28%

13%15% 19% 24% 27%

Other reasons

Loss of other rented housing

End of AST

Rent arrears

Mortgage arrears

Relationship breakdown with partner

Relatives/friends no longer able/willing to accommodate

Reason for losing last settled home

#3: Changing trends in single homelessness


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Rough sleeping:

2,414 people sleeping rough on any given night in 2013 (up 5% from 2012, 11% from 2011, and 37% from 2010)

206 in East Midlands, up from 137 in 2012

Support provided to homeless people



More than a roof:• Holistic support to help people

with the other aspects of their lives – training, health, social networks

• Working in partnerships across health, criminal justice, employment support, financial inclusion

• ‘Moving-on’ and sustainable tenancies

Trends over 2013/14



• Single homeless people's needs are becoming more complex• Services unable to cope with demand and level of people's

needs (74% have had to refuse access on this basis)• Access of external services (particularly mental health) can be

problematic • Services reducing numbers of frontline staff • Impact of welfare reform creating new demands and needs

from clients. • BUT… new innovations, service models and partnerships



Barriers to tackling homelessness



Affordable, quality housing options• Access into the PRS • Nearly a third of people in hostels are ready to move on, but

nowhere to go • Availability under LHA rates

Disinvestment in services for homeless people. Since 2010:• 4,000 fewer bedspaces• 16% fewer full time staff• 133 services closed

Impact of welfare reform, eg• 1 in 3 homeless people on JSA have been sanctioned• Changing entitlements for migrants



Developments at a national level

New investment and learning from these approaches• Fair Chance Fund, Hospital Discharge• No Second Night Out roll out

Care Act: a focus on prevention, integration, housing as part of ‘wellbeing’:• What will the implications be for homelessness?

PHE workstream on housing and homelessness • ‘Prevention’ review• Looking at integrated approaches to improve the ‘health of the poorest,

the fastest’

Cross-government strategy: Ministerial Working Group on Homelessness



Some of the Opportunities

‘Paying it Forward’: investing in services which prevent and address homelessness - and the costs associated with it

Joining up responses nationally and locally: homelessness is not a single issue

• The MEAM approach• Including single homelessness in the JSNA

Developing new models of support• Housing First• Shared housing options for young people

Improving opportunities for work: access to employment and a strong safety net for those not able to work

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