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Report of the Head of Homelessness and Rough Sleepers

The Head of Homelessness and Rough Sleepers introduced an update report on homelessness in the City, noting that her team had performed well in the last quarter. She added that her team would be seeking to build on this work by applying for another grant from the POCA Board for pop-up hubs providing homelessness services.

            In response to a question, she replied that the average of a rough sleeper within the City ranged from 40-50 years of age, and that her team was seeing some evidence of rough sleepers who were substance abusers entering the City from neighbouring boroughs. 

            In response to a question from the Chairman, the Assistant Director Streetscene and Strategy replied that the recent visit to the city by a Chief Executive from Australia had gone well, with the visitor being impressed at the scale of intervention into the problem of homelessness and rough sleeping – he noted that part of the reason for their good impression of the intervention activity was that there was no equivalent to the Vagrancy Act in Australia.

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