The CSR statement released by the Chancellor on 9 October 2007 sets out the key priority outcomes the Government wants to achieve in the next spending period (2008-2011). We are waiting for Communities and Local Government (CLG) to announce details of the settlement for local government, Supporting People, homelessness, and any new capital investment in homelessness services. This is expected shortly and we will place a briefing on this site as soon as we hear.

Homeless Link campaigned for over a year to influence the outcome of the CSR 07. We wrote to all MPs, met officials, and lobbied with Treasury ministers as part of a wide alliance of organisations calling for increased investment in housing, including supported housing. You can read our submission to the CSR here:

We recommended:

• Safeguarding the Supporting People budget with an increase for inflation
• Increasing spending on affordable housing, including move on and supported housing
• A new PSA on social exclusion
• Continuation of the Hostels Capital Improvement Programme (HCIP)

There are 30 national Public Service Agreements (PSAs), which set out cross cutting priorities across Government. Twelve out of thirty are focused on reducing poverty and disadvantage. Each department also have a limited number of its own Departmental Spending Objectives (DSOs). We will be examining these to see which are most promising to unlock support for the work of homelessness services. Local Area Agreements are the new very important route for much of local government funding. They will each have 35 priorities, which will be chosen by each local area from a list of 200 indicators. We are awaiting the publication of this list and will issue briefing when it is available.