FOI request (FOIR-475443313)

Homeless deaths 2022

Requested Tue 03 January 2023
Responded Thu 12 January 2023

Please can I request the number of deaths from 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022 (inclusive) in each of the following housing situations in your local authority area:

1. accommodation for homeless people commissioned by your council, including hostels and supported accommodation for people identified as rough sleeping or with a history of rough sleeping

2. exempt accommodation

3. temporary accommodation commissioned by your local authority

4. supported accommodation for homeless young people commissioned by your council

5. rough sleeping or with no fixed abode

Where you have access to any of the following information, please include the cause of death or suspected cause of death, date of death, the person's gender, the person's age when they died, their ethnicity, and their immigration status. If you cannot provide any of this additional information, then please just provide the number of deaths.

Response

'Exempt accommodation' and 'supported accommodation' are commissioned by East Sussex County Council, please visit their website for further information:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk

For households placed in temporary accommodation by Hastings Borough Council, there were 3x deaths:

White male, age 33 (died Apr 22), cause of death not known

White male, age 56 (died Oct 22), cause of death not known

White male, age 25 (died Nov 22), cause of death not known