Issue details

Purpose of Report: The report will present to Executive the Homelessness & Rough Sleeper Strategy for 2024-29. The Strategy will guide work in this area for the following five years and will seek to enlist partners, stakeholders and citizens in a plan to make homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring.

The Executive will be asked to:

i.                 Approve the Homelessness & Rough Sleeper Strategy for 2024-29.

ii.                Establish a multi-agency governance board to help guide the Strategy.

iii.              Authorise the Director of Housing and Communities and the Corporate Director – Adult Social Care and Integration, to work with partners on service re-design and service transformation, moving to a Housing First approach.

iv.              Authorise Director of Housing and Communities to work with partners to increase the supply of suitable accommodation to help meet demand.

v.               Authorise Director of Housing and Communities and the Corporate Director – Adult Social Care and Integration, to develop a preventative approach and services.