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HOMELESSNESS: a national overview
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Health and Wellbeing Board Stakeholder Network
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#1: Understanding homelessness
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• 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)
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#2: Statutory homelessness trends
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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
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#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
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Support provided to homeless people
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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
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Trends over 2013/14
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• 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
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Barriers to tackling homelessness
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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
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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
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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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