Housing

Homelessness Review 2003

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Introduction
Download the Review
Contact Information

Introduction

In 2002 the Government introduced new legislation, the Homelessness Act 2002, which amended previous homelessness legislation. The Act has six key objectives:

To strengthen help to people who are homeless or at risk or homelessness
To develop more strategic approaches to tackling homelessness
To encourage new responses to tackling homelessness
To reduce the use of B&B accommodation for homeless families with children
To sustain the two- thirds reduction in rough sleeping
To ensure the opportunity of a decent home for all

Central to the Act is the new duty to review homelessness and develop a homelessness strategy. Local Authorities are now under a duty to:

Carry out a homelessness review for their district
Formulate and publish a homelessness strategy based on the results
Make the results of their review available
Publish their first strategy by July 2003
Publish a new strategy every five years
Take the strategy into account when exercising their homelessness functions

The Act also states that reviews and strategies apply to all homeless people, not just those who the Council has a accepted a full duty towards under the Homelessness Act.

Reviews and strategies are expected to be coordinated with other local strategies. The emphasis is on all organisations, statutory and voluntary to work together to provide services for homeless people.

The Homelessness Review

The 2002 Act defines the Homelessness Review as a review of:

The current and future levels of homelessness
Activities undertaken to
- prevent homelessness
- secure that accommodation is available for homeless people
- provide support to homeless people
The resources available for such activities

The Homelessness Review 2003 is the summary of the finding of the review carried out in Hastings.

The Homelessness Strategy will be completed by the end of July 2003 and will be available on this site after that time.

Download the Review

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Homelessness Review 2003 (Adobe Acrobat .pdf 361KB)
Homelessness Appendices 1 - 8 (Adobe Acrobat .pdf 808KB)
Homelessness Appendices 9 - 13 (Adobe Acrobat .pdf 703KB)
Homelessness Appendices 14 - 17 (Adobe Acrobat .pdf 291KB)

Contact Information

Any comments on this review can be made (preferably in writing) to:

Homelessness Policy Officer
Hastings Borough Council
Housing Services
Portland Place
Hastings
East Sussex TN34 1QN

Telephone: 01424 781352
E-mail: homelessneesstrategy@hastings.gov.uk

This page last updated: 12/03/2008