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9 January 2019
Vol 26 l Issue 2
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ACTION PLAN TO HELP THE HOMELESS Council sets out strategy to support people living rough on Sefton’s streets
SEFTON Council has vowed to do more to tackle homelessness in the borough after producing a new action plan. By law, every local authority in the country has to publish a Homelessness Strategy at least every five years and Sefton has published a draft proposal which will be discussed at a Cabinet meeting this week. The Homelessness Strategy 2018-23 for Sefton details a number of ways they can improve, including more accommodation as well as better research to find out exact figures of how many homeless people there currently are living in Sefton. The draft report states: “The local authority could do more to monitor the
Report by Tom Martin current and future levels of homelessness. Better sharing of this intelligence would lead to a greater understanding of the scale and nature of homelessness in Sefton, and assist policy making. “Research needs to be carried out into why there is such a high prevalence of single homeless males with mental ill health in Sefton. “An increase in early and pre-crisis homelessness prevention activities are required.
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This will help to better target people more at risk of homelessness, plus help people to remain in their existing accommodation or secure alternative accommodation prior to becoming homeless. “Additional accommodation is needed for people who are experiencing homelessness. Further incentives to encourage private landlords need to be expanded and developed. “A dispersed provision of temporary accommodation would be better than current arrangements, which concentrates this provision in the Bootle area. Continued inside
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