Transcript Rough Sleeping Strategy 2008

Ending rough sleeping
Making it happen by working
together
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 else 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
Emergency Accommodation Services
Contact and Assessment through Assertive Outreach
Accommodation and Support Pathways
Specialist Support for health, skills and work
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
Champions Programme, Specialist Advisers,
good practice notes, seminars and conferences,
small grants
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Individual budget pilots
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Street Doctors, complex needs panels
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Befriending services
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Engage to Change (Accredited training)
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PrOMPT, hospital and prison discharge
and reconnections protocols
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flow/ stock/ returner models and street needs audits, Outreach Balanced
Scorecard, TfL Bendy Bus project
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www.privaterentedsector.org.uk and advice from Crisis
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GROW
No
wrong door
Making it happen: Challenges?
A8 nationals with no recourse to public funds
Sustaining services
Stemming the flow – early intervention to make
prevention work
Engagement and health input – mental health, complex
needs, personality disorder/ complex trauma
Limited use of enforcement
Making it happen: critical success factors
to end rough sleeping
Tackling entrenched rough sleeping
ensuring no one is living on the street by 2012
• personalised services
• housing first models
• inclusion focused services
• creative, community based responses
• assertive outreach
• enforcement action
Preventing future rough sleeping
• timely interventions – understanding the risks (health and support
needs, trigger events and key transitions)
• homelessness prevention for all
• rapid responses and accommodation and support pathways in every
area (assessment beds, service gateways, reconnections and sub
regional arrangements to remodel outdated patterns of provision)
• community commitment and engagement