Homelessness and rough sleeping strategy

We published our last homelessness strategy in 2016 and this strategy will build upon the achievements we made in our last one. Under the Homelessness Act 2002, we have a statutory duty to review and refresh our homelessness strategy every five years. This strategy sets out our priorities for the development of our homelessness strategy for the period of 2020 to 2025.

This strategy is informed by an updated homelessness review which sets out the picture of homelessness in the borough. Consultation on the development of the strategy ran through 2019 and involved partner agencies, in particular our homelessness forum.

Our overall vision for our strategy is:

       "to ensure that homeless levels in the borough remain as low as possible through prevention and to provide in partnership effective and quality services to those affected by homelessness."

The strategy has four priorities and for each priority our main considerations are set out along with key actions for ourselves and partners. The actions are set out in more detail in a separate action plan.

This strategy covers the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Some of our services are delivered across local authority boundaries and even on a sub-regional basis. This is due to the various partnership projects we are involved in where we recognise the benefits and efficiencies of working together and the funding opportunities that have been made available to us.