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Prevention and Partnership Homelessness Strategy Refresh

Background

Strategic Review 2012/13 –Key themes/Actions

• Prevention
• Targeting households at risk due to welfare reform
• Housing options for excluded households –sharers scheme
• Rough sleepers – maintaining emergency accommodation
• Stronger family approach – pathways to independence
• Better use of resources – influencing commissioning
• Support development of BRHAIN (Borough of Rochdale

Homelessness Action and Information Network)

• Health & Wellbeing

Background/Outcomes

• Prevention
• 181 used Emergency Night stop accommodation at the Step – 54 under

25yrs

• Brentwood over 500 for housing advice and assistance, 59 at risk of

sleeping rough

• Petrus 477, nearly 100 at risk of sleeping rough
• 67 saved through Mortgage Rescue
• 47 live sharers – 98 referrals in 1st 6 weeks of 2016

Year 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 Preventions 1490 1515 1614 1889

Outcomes

Health & Wellbeing

• +100 re-engaged with Primary healthcare

services

• Over 30 families engaged through healthier

activities

• Petrus nearly 250 brief interventions Brentwood

facilitates 100 per quarter

• Pre-employment and vocational activities, links

with Univ and Councils environmental services

• Social capital and personal wellbeing

Strategy Refresh

Strategy working group

• Review - Case studies – Survey - Consultation

Priority issues

• Complex dependencies and excluded households
• Health & wellbeing
• Welfare reform
• Domestic abuse
• Commissioning and austerity
• Sustainable pathways for young people
• Move on

Prevention and Partnership

Case Managed Approach

• Agreed Assessment to include H&W,

employment and training, social capital.

• Multi Agency Risk Management model
• CAFs cross agency engagement

Domestic Abuse

• Engage with social landlords, information

sharing across services, safer homes.

Prevention and Partnership

Exclusions, complex dependencies and rough sleepers

• Housing First Model
• Assertive outreach, review exclusion policies,

flexibility step up/step down. B&Bs

• Cold Weather Protocol, NSNO
• Hospital Discharge Social Landlord Offer

Prevention and Partnership

Health and Wellbeing

• Assessments based upon measureable New

Directions Team Assessment

• Front line staff adopt MEAM and brief

interventions

• Suite of PIs
• Harness community support
• Homelessness Link Health Survey

Prevention and Partnership

Welfare reform

• Target Benefit cap cases
• Link with employment support
• Share good practice
• Promote the development of a Sharers offer

across the Borough

Prevention and Partnership

Housing Benefit Exemption 18-21yr olds

• Quick access to training and employment

support

• Identify potential short term housing that may

be exempt

• A place of safety for 18-21yr old at risk of

sleeping rough

• Develop housing options linked to training and

support

Prevention and Partnership

A better offer for Young People

• Promote the Corporate Parenting ethos across

social landlord partners.

• Local variation to determination of

Intentionality

• Providing training and employment
• pportunities linked to housing
• To build upon the GM Shared services models

Prevention and Partnership

• Continue to support households at risk due to

mortgage default

• Continue to support the Bond Board
• Continue to support BRHAIN/Joint Board
• Developing a funding arm
• Look to develop the website to link in with

wider issues

Prevention and Partnership

Equality & Diversity

• Support development of DA services for under

represented households

• Albert Kennedy Trust 24% youth homelessness

LGBT GM and Devolution Legislation

• Homelessness Reduction Bill

Prevention and Partnership

Better aligned and more integrated

• Prevention and Integrated Commissioning
• Links to locality plan
• Housing & Health
• Focus on sustainability
• Encouraging flexibility

Gateway model