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23 Sep 21
The government must develop a flexible long-term funding strategy if it is to meet its target of eliminating rough sleeping by 2024, according to experts.
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24 Jun 20
The government is set to pledge an additional £105m of funding to help keep rough sleepers off the streets post Covid-19.
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18 Jun 20
The government’s initiative to find emergency accommodation for rough sleepers during the pandemic offers an opportunity to make this the beginning of the end of homelessness, argues Crisis chief...
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5 Jun 20
More than half of frontline services have reported an increase in the need to provide support relating to homelessness since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from charity...
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27 May 20
The government has pledged to provide 6,000 supported homes in a bid to “end rough sleeping for good”.
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4 May 20
The government has launched a taskforce to help ensure that homeless people moved into accommodation during the coronavirus pandemic do not return to sleeping rough once the crisis is resolved.
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26 Mar 20
The legacy of living on the streets does not stop as soon as a person is placed in accommodation, says Bill Tidnam.
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27 Feb 20
The prime minister has announced an extra £236m of funding as official figures show rough sleeping in England has fallen by 9% in a year but remains 141% higher than a decade ago.
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13 Feb 20
Increasing homelessness, parliament ‘misled’ over HS2 costs, 2019 bumper year for public procurement, 18 million health workers wanted - all in Numbers Game from the February...
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24 Jan 20
Nearly three-quarters of people in England and Wales think arresting people for sleeping rough is a waste of police time, a survey has found.
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18 Dec 19
The number of households assessed by local authorities as either homeless or threatened with homelessness has increased by 11.4% over the past year, official figures have shown.
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12 Dec 19
The number of homeless people in England attending A&E departments has more than trebled in the last eight years, figures have shown.
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3 Dec 19
There are 135,000 homeless children in Britain - the highest number in over a decade, according to analysis by the homeless charity Shelter.
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28 Nov 19
The Liberal Democrats have vowed to end rough sleeping within five years by placing a duty on councils to provide emergency accommodation.
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11 Nov 19
As we remember the sacrifices of those that have served in the armed forces, Riverside Housing Association’s Lee Buss writes about how Britain’s new Office for Veteran Affairs can act to end...
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31 Oct 19
The number of rough sleepers in London has boomed in the past year and now stands at almost 4,000 according to an analysis of official data released by the Greater London Authority today.
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7 Oct 19
The government must increase the levels of housing benefit given to people in the private rented sector as families are being priced out of homes, according to a trade association.
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1 Oct 19
Groups have called for the housing crisis to be fixed after official figures revealed two homeless people died in England and Wales each day last year.
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13 Sep 19
The number of homeless households in England rose 11% between the last quarter of 2018 and the first three months of this year, government figures have revealed.
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6 Sep 19
The government is looking for an organisation to run pilots to help it improve local authority data collection on homelessness.
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21 Aug 19
Homeless children are being housed in shipping containers because councils do not have enough temporary accommodation for them to live in.
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14 Aug 19
An average of one homeless person died every 19 hours in the last six months in the UK, research has found.
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13 Aug 19
Director of operations for care and support at housing association Riverside Lee Buss looks at progress on the government’s rough sleeping strategy one year on.
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21 Jun 19
A comprehensive national strategy backed by proper funding and infrastructure is required to tackle the growing crisis of homelessness, according to a report from the Local Government Information...
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24 May 19
A new family in England was found to be homeless, on average, every five minutes over a recent six-month period, analysis of government data has found.