Transcript Rough Sleeping Strategy 2008

No one left out: communities
ending rough sleeping
Making it happen
Rough sleeping: background
and progress
No One Left Out: communities
ending rough sleeping published
November 2008 signals our
intent to work with partners and
across government to end rough
sleeping by 2012.
The 2009 total of rough sleepers
found on street counts showed
464 people sleeping rough on
the streets on any given night.
This is a slight reduction on 483
in 2008 and continues the good
work underway since 1998.
There is still a need to improve
how we prevent and tackle
rough sleeping.
What will success look like?
We want to ensure people get the help they
need so no one has to sleep rough and,
most importantly, no one is living on the
streets in England in 2012.
Through services and interventions that:
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Prevent rough sleeping
Bring people in as quickly as possible (with the aim
that no one sleeps rough for a second night and no
one becomes entrenched living on the streets)
Support people who have slept rough to sustain lives
away from the streets.
Implementation:
A Strategic Delivery Framework
Strategic Approach and Partnerships
Prevention and Early Interventions Services – including proactive
identification of and interventions for those at risk, Enhanced Housing Options
Emergency Accommodation Services –responses that offer shelter, needs
assessments and divert people away from the street
Contact and Assessment through Assertive Outreach - supporting people
away from the streets as quickly as possible
Accommodation and Support Pathways – sustainable moves away from
the street
Specialist Support for health, skills and work– fulfilled sustainable lives
away from the streets
The Right Help in the Right Place at the Right Time
Strategy, partnership and infrastructure
support for delivery
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Self –assessment checklist for local authorities
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Specialist Advisers
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Good practice notes, seminars
and conferences
No
wrong door
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Champions programme
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Small grants programme
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Accredited training for front line homelessness workers – Engage
to Change (+ for Boards)
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PrOMPT, hospital discharge protocols, reconnections protocols,
Outreach Balanced Scorecard, www.privaterentedsector.org.uk
and advice from Crisis, GROW, flow/ stock/ returner models and
street needs audits, TfL Bendy Bus
Making it happen: challenges and critical
success factors to end rough sleeping
Tackling entrenched rough sleeping –
ensuring no one is living on the street by 2012
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personalised services
housing first models
inclusion focused services
assertive outreach
enforcement action
Preventing future rough sleeping –
a “guarantee” of shelter so no one has a second night on the streets
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timely interventions – understanding the risks (health and support
needs, trigger events and key transitions)
homelessness prevention for all
accommodation and support pathways in every area (assessment
beds, service gateways, reconnections and sub regional
arrangements to remodel outdated patterns of provision)