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