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ROUGH SLEEPING IN WEST
LONDON
Lead Housing Members Meeting
16.11.10
Ieuan ap Rees
West London Homelessness
Coordinator
Verified rough sleepers
• 2009/10 - 507 people
• 74% new (60% London)
• Total varies from 6 in Harrow to 138 in
K&C
• % new varies from 46 (K&C) to 91(Brent)
• 29% white (other) - up from 17% in 08-09
• 63% white (75% for London)
• 87% male
Background & support needs
• Overall lower numbers & fewer support needs
than rest of London
• Fewer from armed forces, care or prison
• Brent audit showed 80% registered with GP &
43% dentist but still 33% had ambulance call out
and hospital admission in last 6 months – similar
to other pilots
• Main issues injuries / breathing
• High levels of smoking, alcohol and
drug use
• 69% mental health concerns
PrOMPT Survey I
• 54 rough sleepers & ex-rough sleepers
interviewed
• 59% last settled home outside borough and 44%
outside sub-region
• Majority had last settled home more than 2 years
ago
• Main Causes - relationship breakdown, loss of
job, alcohol & drug abuse
• Housing Departments underused & found & &
unhelpful
PrOMPT Survey II
• 40% straight to rough sleeping
• 60% slept rough for > a year
• Main reasons people stayed in WL while sleeping rough
- familiarity, friends & feeling safe
• 23% aware of services available before coming
• Only 9% came expecting job opportunities
• Day centres & outreach well used, trusted and perceived
as the biggest factor in ending rough sleeping
• More assistance needed with housing advice,
alcohol/drugs reduction and employment/training
Overview of Services
• Concentration in K&C / H&F i.e. 8 out of 10 day
centres
• Hostels /supported housing 1600+ bed spaces –
reducing / un-ring fencing of SP budgets &
pressing priorities for adult social care
• Outreach – 4 boroughs have own outreach +
Heathrow + Street Rescue
• Different multi-agency approaches
• West London Reconnect
Action Plan I
• Conference in June
• Coordinated Street Count / Estimate
(Nov.24)
• cross-borough access to specialised
services e.g. Pound Lane
• No Recourse to Public Funds - West
London Reconnect
• Hospital discharge form
Action Plan II
• Access to PRS – Letstart, CRISIS
Programme
• London Reconnections Protocol
• Outreach – Retain Street Rescue (LC
Grants Review)
• Enforcement – Roll out Brent UKBA Pilot
• No Second Night Out Pilot / Assessment
Beds
Issues
• How to stop the flow (NSNO)
• Migration – end of transitional
arrangements for A8 nationals (April 2011)
• Imbalance between boroughs
• Reducing resources
• Enforcement
• Personalisation