Issue - meetings

Housing and Environmental Health

To recommend a new Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy.

Resolved:

That the Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2024 – 2027 and associated Delivery Plan, shown at Annex 1 and Annex 2 to the report, be approved.

Consideration was given to a report of the Housing and Environmental Health Portfolio Holder which presented the draft Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2024-2027 and associated Delivery Plan.

The Strategy would deliver initiatives designed to meet locally identified need by empowering and supporting people to overcome their housing challenges, supporting local partnership connections to prevent and relieve homelessness, provide good quality support services and information to communities and support collaborative working to ensure rough sleeping was prevented wherever possible.

The strategy had been developed using the result of research, data analysis and a wide range of consultations with staff, service users, councillors and stakeholders.

Having considered the options and for the reasons set out in the report, the recommendations were proposed by Councillor Flood, seconded by Councillor P North and Cabinet agreed to the following:

Resolved:

That the Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2024 – 2027 and associated Delivery Plan, shown at Annex 1 and Annex 2 to the report, be approved.