Homelessness and rough sleeping strategy
Action plan - priority 3 - work in partnership to address homelessness
Challenge and resolve barriers to effective service delivery across the borough and seek to maximise the positive outcomes for vulnerable customers
- Lead responsibility - Housing strategy
- Resources - within current resources, review approaches to working with the Vulnerability Hub and the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC)
- Timescale - ongoing
Continue to work on the development and improvement of protocols and pathways with statutory and voluntary providers which will enhance access opportunities and prevent homelessness
- Lead responsibility - Housing strategy
- Resources - within current resources
- Timescale - ongoing
Build on the current referral arrangements introduced under the duty to refer to other agencies within the HRA
- Lead responsibility - Housing strategy, NHA
- Resources - within current resources
- Timescale - 2020
Continue to develop joint working relationships, raise awareness of joint initiatives and when appropriate implement joint training
- Lead responsibility - Housing strategy
- Resources - within current resources
- Timescale - ongoing
Ensure we continue to monitor and identify our local needs, and be able to feed these into future strategic plans
- Lead responsibility - Housing strategy
- Resources - within current resources
- Timescale - ongoing
Work with those who commission and deliver drug and alcohol services to ensure joined up support is in place
- Lead responsibility - Housing strategy, drug and alcohol services
- Resources - within current resources
- Timescale - 2020
Work with those who commission and deliver mental health services to ensure joined up support is in place
- Lead responsibility - Housing strategy, mental health services
- Resources - within current resources
- Timescale - 2020
Ensure our homelessness services are accessible to all our customers and partners and that joint commissioning opportunities deliver shared objectives and reduce duplication
- Lead responsibility - Housing strategy, NHA
- Resources - within current resources
- Timescale - ongoing