Agenda item

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

Members are asked to note a non-public appendix to this report at Agenda Item 13.

Members received a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services which summarised the key findings and recommendations from the ‘New Interventions and Approaches for Rough Sleepers’ report commissioned from Homeless Link in March 2019.  Members noted that, as the detail behind the proposals would stray into areas of commercial sensitivity, as defined by Paragraph 3 of the 1972 Local Government Act, then the presentation and discussion would be held in Part 2 of today’s agenda.   Subsequent to the presentation and discussion, the meeting returned to the public agenda and the Chairman summarised as follows:

•           Members had asked if blockages on pathways could be identified and for measurable outcomes; explaining how lives were being improved etc, to be included for those proposals that would be taken forward.

•           Members would receive a further, more detailed report at the next meeting of the Sub Committee, incorporating comments from Members, for approval by the Grand Committee on 13th December.  An all Member Breakfast Briefing would follow in January 2020.

In concluding, the Chairman and Members commended an excellent piece of work and thanked the City Corporation Homelessness officers and Homeless Link.

RESOLVED, that – the report be noted.