FOI request (FOIR-698913978)

Homeless deaths 2024

Requested Mon 24 March 2025
Responded Wed 09 April 2025

Please can I request information about the number of deaths from 1st January 2024 to 31st December 2024 (inclusive) in your local authority area, in each of the following housing situations:

1. Accommodation for homeless people, commissioned or directly delivered by your council, including Night Shelter, hostels and supported housing services for people rough sleeping or with a history of rough sleeping.

2. Exempt accommodation.

3. Interim, emergency or temporary accommodation (commissioned or directly delivered) offered under Part VII Housing Act. Please specify which if this is known.

4. Supported accommodation for homeless young people (commissioned and directly delivered).

5. Refuge accommodation for survivors of domestic abuse.

6. Rough sleeping or with no fixed abode.

We are seeking this information about adults and children of all ages who were experiencing homelessness at the time of their death. Please include the cause or suspected cause of death, date of death, the person's gender, age when they died, ethnicity, and immigration status. If you cannot provide all of this information, then please just provide all that you can.

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Response

Please see the attached information regarding temporary/emergency accommodation and rough sleeping.

Hastings Borough Council does not hold any information for the other housing situations.

Attachments

• FOIR-698913978_FOIR-698913978_1-FOIR-698913978_-_Information.xlsx