Councils will receive additional Government
support to prevent vulnerable people becoming homeless, the
Communities Secretary has announced. £310 million will be targeted
at areas with high numbers of homeless people, those at risk of
homelessness, or those living in temporary
accommodation - helping them to rebuild their lives. The funding
represents a £47 million increase on this year and can be used to
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Councils will receive additional Government
support to prevent vulnerable people becoming homeless, the
Communities Secretary has announced.
£310 million will be targeted at areas with high numbers
of homeless people, those at risk of homelessness,
or those living in temporary accommodation - helping them to
rebuild their lives.
The funding represents a £47 million increase on this year and
can be used to offer financial support for people to find a new
home, to work with landlords to prevent evictions, or to provide
temporary accommodation to ensure families have a roof over their
head.
This underlines the Government’s commitment to fully enforcing
the Homelessness Reduction Act by ensuring councils have the
funding they need to prevent homelessness and help more people
sooner.
The funding is part of overall investment of more than £750
million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping next year.
And this builds on the ongoing ‘Everyone In’ campaign, which
is protecting thousands of lives during the pandemic by housing
rough sleepers. By September, it had supported over 29,000
vulnerable people, with two-thirds now moved into settled
accommodation.
To provide further help for those at risk of homelessness, the
Government has also ensured there is no bailiff enforcement
action over the Christmas period apart from in the most serious
cases. This builds on protections announced earlier this year,
including six-month notice periods and new court rules meaning
judges will prioritise the most serious of cases.
Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said:
“As we look back on an incredibly challenging year, everyone who
has helped protect rough sleepers and those at risk of
homelessness during this pandemic should be proud of the role
they have played in our internationally recognised response.
“Today I am announcing £310 million to help councils protect
those at risk of homelessness in the year ahead. We have a moral
duty to help some of the most vulnerable people in our society
rebuild their lives and look forward to a brighter future, and
this funding will help us to realise that ambition.”
Minister for Housing and Rough Sleeping , said:
“All of the charities, councils, housing providers and support
groups have truly gone the extra mile this year to protect the
most vulnerable in our society throughout the pandemic and I want
to wholeheartedly thank all of those who have made this possible.
“This new funding will play a vital role in helping councils
provide better support to prevent people from becoming homeless
in the first place as we look to end rough sleeping once and for
all.”
The Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 ensures people at risk of
becoming homeless get help more quickly, with councils receiving
funding to support them in these duties.
Since this came into force, over 270,000 households have had
their homelessness successfully prevented or relieved through
securing accommodation for more than six months.
This investment builds on more than £700 million Government is
spending on homelessness and rough sleeping this year. This has
included the £15 million ‘Protect Programme’ scheme for councils
which required extra support during the national restrictions and
throughout winter to provide accommodation for rough sleepers.
We have also allocated £91.5 million to 274 councils in September
to fund immediate support and interim accommodation for
vulnerable people, as well as the £10 million Cold Weather Fund
for councils to help to keep rough sleepers safe this winter.
ENDS
Notes to Editors:
- The Department has today published two evaluation reports
carried out by independent researchers on the Housing First
pilots in Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and the West
Midlands.
- The first report presents findings from research in the first
year of the Housing First pilot, prior to the pandemic, which
shows securing commitment at the highest level across all
partners is essential for effective implementation and that
relationships also need to be established with housing providers
as early as possible.
- The second report covers the impact of Covid-19 on the pilots
and shows the organisation has worked hard to establish safe
approaches to supporting clients and staff by introducing remote
communications and providing enhanced emotional and wellbeing
support.
- The full breakdown of funding provided to councils in England
can be found below:
|
Local Authority
|
Homelessness Prevention Grant allocation for
2020-21
|
|
Adur
|
£ 254,734
|
|
Allerdale
|
£ 140,776
|
|
Amber Valley
|
£ 265,329
|
|
Arun
|
£ 810,548
|
|
Ashfield
|
£ 266,498
|
|
Ashford
|
£ 533,902
|
|
Babergh
|
£ 221,003
|
|
Barking and Dagenham
|
£ 4,324,336
|
|
Barnet
|
£ 5,666,770
|
|
Barnsley
|
£ 366,774
|
|
Barrow-in-Furness
|
£ 200,947
|
|
Basildon
|
£ 970,646
|
|
Basingstoke and Deane
|
£ 703,504
|
|
Bassetlaw
|
£ 231,592
|
|
Bath and North East Somerset
|
£ 472,112
|
|
Bedford
|
£ 848,737
|
|
Bexley
|
£ 2,595,323
|
|
Birmingham
|
£ 7,171,359
|
|
Blaby
|
£ 132,378
|
|
Blackburn with Darwen
|
£ 306,002
|
|
Blackpool
|
£ 577,273
|
|
Bolsover
|
£ 142,262
|
|
Bolton
|
£ 674,618
|
|
Boston
|
£ 131,428
|
|
Bracknell Forest
|
£ 538,306
|
|
Bradford
|
£ 1,494,965
|
|
Braintree
|
£ 411,824
|
|
Breckland
|
£ 363,893
|
|
Brent
|
£ 7,004,185
|
|
Brentwood
|
£ 203,031
|
|
Brighton and Hove
|
£ 6,240,090
|
|
Bristol, City of
|
£ 2,912,288
|
|
Broadland
|
£ 296,502
|
|
Bromley
|
£ 3,678,364
|
|
Bromsgrove
|
£ 158,594
|
|
Broxbourne
|
£ 748,147
|
|
Broxtowe
|
£ 218,526
|
|
Burnley
|
£ 200,642
|
|
Bury
|
£ 463,254
|
|
Calderdale
|
£ 388,407
|
|
Cambridge
|
£ 676,842
|
|
Camden
|
£ 2,641,758
|
|
Cannock Chase
|
£ 254,496
|
|
Canterbury
|
£ 630,961
|
|
Carlisle
|
£ 198,863
|
|
Castle Point
|
£ 357,523
|
|
Central Bedfordshire
|
£ 650,368
|
|
Charnwood
|
£ 288,892
|
|
Chelmsford
|
£ 876,897
|
|
Cheltenham
|
£ 362,114
|
|
Cherwell
|
£ 489,933
|
|
Cheshire East
|
£ 559,547
|
|
Cheshire West and Chester
|
£ 817,345
|
|
Chesterfield
|
£ 219,392
|
|
Chichester
|
£ 375,423
|
|
Chorley
|
£ 160,288
|
|
City of London
|
£ 134,166
|
|
Colchester
|
£ 910,361
|
|
Copeland
|
£ 125,282
|
|
Cornwall
|
£ 1,735,718
|
|
Cotswold
|
£ 133,271
|
|
County Durham
|
£ 753,013
|
|
Coventry
|
£ 1,299,565
|
|
Craven
|
£ 79,153
|
|
Crawley
|
£ 869,572
|
|
Croydon
|
£ 7,233,440
|
|
Dacorum
|
£ 598,416
|
|
Darlington
|
£ 197,129
|
|
Dartford
|
£ 574,814
|
|
Derby
|
£ 986,280
|
|
Derbyshire Dales
|
£ 119,421
|
|
Doncaster
|
£ 739,351
|
|
Dover
|
£ 489,374
|
|
Dudley
|
£ 673,439
|
|
Ealing
|
£ 5,666,784
|
|
East Cambridgeshire
|
£ 323,632
|
|
East Devon
|
£ 261,375
|
|
East Hampshire
|
£ 396,892
|
|
East Hertfordshire
|
£ 312,013
|
|
East Lindsey
|
£ 404,479
|
|
East Riding of Yorkshire
|
£ 477,494
|
|
East Staffordshire
|
£ 269,527
|
|
Eastbourne
|
£ 675,701
|
|
Eastleigh
|
£ 344,770
|
|
Eden
|
£ 77,860
|
|
Elmbridge
|
£ 519,717
|
|
Enfield
|
£ 8,927,794
|
|
Epping Forest
|
£ 562,234
|
|
Epsom and Ewell
|
£ 472,041
|
|
Erewash
|
£ 198,734
|
|
Exeter
|
£ 595,274
|
|
Fareham
|
£ 279,229
|
|
Fenland
|
£ 327,938
|
|
Folkestone and Hythe
|
£ 513,978
|
|
Forest of Dean
|
£ 142,640
|
|
Fylde
|
£ 107,457
|
|
Gateshead
|
£ 520,118
|
|
Gedling
|
£ 258,352
|
|
Gloucester
|
£ 687,526
|
|
Gosport
|
£ 556,267
|
|
Gravesham
|
£ 341,930
|
|
Great Yarmouth
|
£ 388,892
|
|
Greenwich
|
£ 3,609,515
|
|
Guildford
|
£ 417,686
|
|
Hackney
|
£ 5,660,367
|
|
Halton
|
£ 344,828
|
|
Hambleton
|
£ 125,406
|
|
Hammersmith and Fulham
|
£ 3,773,683
|
|
Harborough
|
£ 94,004
|
|
Haringey
|
£ 8,393,894
|
|
Harlow
|
£ 554,403
|
|
Harrogate
|
£ 405,235
|
|
Harrow
|
£ 2,246,458
|
|
Hart
|
£ 260,505
|
|
Hartlepool
|
£ 189,991
|
|
Hastings
|
£ 1,078,160
|
|
Havant
|
£ 582,431
|
|
Havering
|
£ 2,344,362
|
|
Herefordshire, County of
|
£ 368,377
|
|
Hertsmere
|
£ 443,557
|
|
High Peak
|
£ 177,564
|
|
Hillingdon
|
£ 2,470,928
|
|
Hinckley and Bosworth
|
£ 225,549
|
|
Horsham
|
£ 376,512
|
|
Hounslow
|
£ 2,916,804
|
|
Huntingdonshire
|
£ 662,384
|
|
Hyndburn
|
£ 145,503
|
|
Ipswich
|
£ 713,348
|
|
Isle of Wight
|
£ 764,486
|
|
Isles of Scilly
|
£ 1,180
|
|
Islington
|
£ 3,666,513
|
|
Kensington and Chelsea
|
£ 4,678,546
|
|
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
|
£ 469,977
|
|
Kingston upon Hull, City of
|
£ 961,575
|
|
Kingston upon Thames
|
£ 1,599,319
|
|
Kirklees
|
£ 1,013,352
|
|
Knowsley
|
£ 456,373
|
|
Lambeth
|
£ 5,812,888
|
|
Lancaster
|
£ 478,898
|
|
Leeds
|
£ 2,344,706
|
|
Leicester
|
£ 948,658
|
|
Lewes
|
£ 520,142
|
|
Lewisham
|
£ 4,834,271
|
|
Lichfield
|
£ 203,459
|
|
Lincoln
|
£ 366,671
|
|
Liverpool
|
£ 1,597,340
|
|
Luton
|
£ 3,842,814
|
|
Maidstone
|
£ 782,205
|
|
Maldon
|
£ 142,320
|
|
Malvern Hills
|
£ 135,876
|
|
Manchester
|
£ 3,285,785
|
|
Mansfield
|
£ 310,273
|
|
Medway
|
£ 1,554,151
|
|
Melton
|
£ 103,865
|
|
Mendip
|
£ 284,787
|
|
Merton
|
£ 1,359,687
|
|
Mid Devon
|
£ 197,431
|
|
Mid Suffolk
|
£ 189,786
|
|
Mid Sussex
|
£ 432,728
|
|
Middlesbrough
|
£ 318,144
|
|
Milton Keynes
|
£ 1,990,412
|
|
Mole Valley
|
£ 282,794
|
|
New Forest
|
£ 619,724
|
|
Newark and Sherwood
|
£ 226,279
|
|
Newcastle upon Tyne
|
£ 620,514
|
|
Newcastle-under-Lyme
|
£ 183,537
|
|
Newham
|
£ 11,361,338
|
|
North Devon
|
£ 396,361
|
|
North East Derbyshire
|
£ 141,473
|
|
North East Lincolnshire
|
£ 383,867
|
|
North Hertfordshire
|
£ 339,826
|
|
North Kesteven
|
£ 229,746
|
|
North Lincolnshire
|
£ 344,077
|
|
North Norfolk
|
£ 310,183
|
|
North Somerset
|
£ 562,473
|
|
North Tyneside
|
£ 369,779
|
|
North Warwickshire
|
£ 162,681
|
|
North West Leicestershire
|
£ 132,387
|
|
Northumberland
|
£ 491,405
|
|
Norwich
|
£ 595,625
|
|
Nottingham
|
£ 1,296,452
|
|
Nuneaton and Bedworth
|
£ 347,692
|
|
Oadby and Wigston
|
£ 139,560
|
|
Oldham
|
£ 531,774
|
|
Oxford
|
£ 1,067,016
|
|
Pendle
|
£ 172,887
|
|
Peterborough
|
£ 1,337,187
|
|
Plymouth
|
£ 1,003,893
|
|
Portsmouth
|
£ 1,415,103
|
|
Preston
|
£ 315,746
|
|
Reading
|
£ 1,534,598
|
|
Redbridge
|
£ 5,257,937
|
|
Redcar and Cleveland
|
£ 215,396
|
|
Redditch
|
£ 314,926
|
|
Reigate and Banstead
|
£ 668,235
|
|
Ribble Valley
|
£ 67,912
|
|
Richmond upon Thames
|
£ 1,415,283
|
|
Richmondshire
|
£ 131,260
|
|
Rochdale
|
£ 680,771
|
|
Rochford
|
£ 279,925
|
|
Rossendale
|
£ 137,361
|
|
Rother
|
£ 462,228
|
|
Rotherham
|
£ 555,216
|
|
Rugby
|
£ 304,520
|
|
Runnymede
|
£ 346,706
|
|
Rushcliffe
|
£ 162,182
|
|
Rushmoor
|
£ 472,993
|
|
Rutland
|
£ 64,128
|
|
Ryedale
|
£ 85,298
|
|
Salford
|
£ 955,100
|
|
Sandwell
|
£ 1,171,668
|
|
Scarborough
|
£ 418,399
|
|
Sedgemoor
|
£ 367,227
|
|
Sefton
|
£ 536,488
|
|
Selby
|
£ 127,745
|
|
Sevenoaks
|
£ 434,897
|
|
Sheffield
|
£ 1,349,759
|
|
Shropshire
|
£ 678,402
|
|
Slough
|
£ 979,619
|
|
Solihull
|
£ 872,994
|
|
South Cambridgeshire
|
£ 508,937
|
|
South Derbyshire
|
£ 206,311
|
|
South Gloucestershire
|
£ 662,217
|
|
South Hams
|
£ 169,191
|
|
South Holland
|
£ 166,617
|
|
South Kesteven
|
£ 335,841
|
|
South Lakeland
|
£ 153,936
|
|
South Norfolk
|
£ 222,450
|
|
South Oxfordshire
|
£ 352,124
|
|
South Ribble
|
£ 151,426
|
|
South Somerset
|
£ 453,479
|
|
South Staffordshire
|
£ 130,863
|
|
South Tyneside
|
£ 366,157
|
|
Southampton
|
£ 1,289,270
|
|
Southend-on-Sea
|
£ 663,337
|
|
Southwark
|
£ 5,447,541
|
|
Spelthorne
|
£ 604,513
|
|
St Albans
|
£ 487,905
|
|
St. Helens
|
£ 325,746
|
|
Stafford
|
£ 207,437
|
|
Staffordshire Moorlands
|
£ 145,057
|
|
Stevenage
|
£ 500,831
|
|
Stockport
|
£ 697,744
|
|
Stockton-on-Tees
|
£ 416,499
|
|
Stoke-on-Trent
|
£ 785,801
|
|
Stratford-on-Avon
|
£ 366,216
|
|
Stroud
|
£ 209,536
|
|
Sunderland
|
£ 470,215
|
|
Surrey Heath
|
£ 318,378
|
|
Sutton
|
£ 1,756,536
|
|
Swale
|
£ 662,077
|
|
Swindon
|
£ 1,923,088
|
|
Tameside
|
£ 656,372
|
|
Tamworth
|
£ 245,757
|
|
Tandridge
|
£ 306,994
|
|
Teignbridge
|
£ 438,644
|
|
Telford and Wrekin
|
£ 374,448
|
|
Tendring
|
£ 780,942
|
|
Test Valley
|
£ 371,626
|
|
Tewkesbury
|
£ 210,890
|
|
Thanet
|
£ 862,362
|
|
Three Rivers
|
£ 282,037
|
|
Thurrock
|
£ 858,551
|
|
Tonbridge and Malling
|
£ 382,715
|
|
Torbay
|
£ 745,579
|
|
Torridge
|
£ 246,536
|
|
Tower Hamlets
|
£ 5,851,744
|
|
Trafford
|
£ 652,793
|
|
Tunbridge Wells
|
£ 421,501
|
|
Uttlesford
|
£ 187,932
|
|
Vale of White Horse
|
£ 254,100
|
|
Wakefield
|
£ 770,757
|
|
Walsall
|
£ 828,539
|
|
Waltham Forest
|
£ 5,493,727
|
|
Wandsworth
|
£ 4,469,975
|
|
Warrington
|
£ 550,806
|
|
Warwick
|
£ 360,256
|
|
Watford
|
£ 625,936
|
|
Waverley
|
£ 603,670
|
|
Wealden
|
£ 545,889
|
|
Welwyn Hatfield
|
£ 491,054
|
|
West Berkshire
|
£ 262,534
|
|
West Devon
|
£ 174,628
|
|
West Lancashire
|
£ 135,368
|
|
West Lindsey
|
£ 179,541
|
|
West Oxfordshire
|
£ 253,329
|
|
Westminster
|
£ 6,842,411
|
|
Wigan
|
£ 702,414
|
|
Wiltshire
|
£ 1,005,074
|
|
Winchester
|
£ 300,095
|
|
Windsor and Maidenhead
|
£ 1,483,229
|
|
Wirral
|
£ 513,579
|
|
Woking
|
£ 395,492
|
|
Wokingham
|
£ 464,280
|
|
Wolverhampton
|
£ 886,352
|
|
Worcester
|
£ 464,362
|
|
Worthing
|
£ 361,732
|
|
Wychavon
|
£ 354,237
|
|
Wyre
|
£ 258,512
|
|
Wyre Forest
|
£ 344,305
|
|
York
|
£ 378,290
|
|
Buckinghamshire Council
|
£ 1,646,281
|
|
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
|
£ 1,817,645
|
|
West Suffolk
|
£ 656,214
|
|
Somerset West and Taunton
|
£ 443,032
|
|
East Suffolk
|
£ 590,880
|
|
Dorset
|
£ 889,494
|
|
West Northamptonshire
|
£ 1,358,938
|
|
North Northamptonshire
|
£ 994,797
|
|
|
|
