Agenda item

Q4 Performance Report - Homelessness and Rough Sleeping

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

Minutes:

Members received a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services in respect of the level and nature of homelessness and rough sleeping activity within the City of London during the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2018/19. 

 

Members noted that, whilst the report reflected a turbulent period, the commissioned services were working well.  The Assistant Director explained that the number of rough sleepers had seen its largest increased in periods 2 and 3, and had slightly reduced in quarter 4, but this was twice the rate at the same time last year. Members noted that the data included those sleeping in tents and, as CHAIN data covered the whole of London, it would include those not seen again in London.  Furthermore, the unwillingness of some clients to identify themselves made them very difficult to track.  Members were pleased to note success at Anchor House with some clients without recourse to public funds.

 

RESOLVED, That – the report be noted.  

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