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Rough Sleeping and Street Homelessness
This page covers issues relating to rough sleeping and street homelessness.
Homeless Link has published the interim findings of its research into Good practice in street outreach . These are available on the Good practice handbooks microsite.
Rough Sleeping Statistics
- Communities and Local Government (CLG)collects statistics on rough sleeping in England. These include the national rough sleeping estimate 2006, which gives a figure (from a street count) for individual local authorities across the country and a national estimate, currently 502 people. More rough sleeping statistics
Resources
- CLG has just published (8 April 2008) its rough sleeping discussion paper to inform the future direction of the rough sleeping strategy to reduce rough sleeping to 'as close to zero as possible'.
- CLG has published its reconnections guidelines, which cover how and when it is appropriate for local authorities to help rough sleepers "return in a planned way to an area where they have accommodation, support networks or some other connection".
- Steps Off the Street: solutions to street homelessness Crisis, July 2006
- Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and Street Intervention Broadway, 2004
- New Directions in Street Homelessness: a good practice guide to supporting service users with complex needs Shelter, October 2006
- Preventing Tomorrows Rough Sleepers: a good practice handbook ODPM (now DCLG) June 2001
- In September 2005 the ODPM published a review of settled housing for former rough sleepers in London
- Swindon Borugh Council has developed a Multi-agency Rough Sleepers Panel & Forum.