FOI request (FOIR-724569205)

Ex-offenders

Requested Fri 20 June 2025
Responded Tue 01 July 2025

1. How many ex-offenders have been housed using the funding allocated to your local authority. Please give figures for each phase separately if applicable.

2. Please give information on how much funding was spent in the following areas:

a. Rent and deposits

b. Incentives for landlords to join the scheme

c. Dedicated support staff such as landlord liaison and tenancy support/sustainment officers.

Please give figures for each phase separately if applicable.

3. If funding was used as incentives for landlords, how many ex-offenders did those landlords house. This can be given as one total amount. Please give figures for each phase separately if applicable.

4. If the total amount allocated to your local authority as part of the AFEO scheme has not been used, please give details of how much remains unspent. One total figure is acceptable.

5. If the total amount allocated to your local authority has not been used, please give details of what is to be done with the remainder of the funding.

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Response

1.

1st April 2023 - 31st March 2024 = 1 accommodated (note that the project had a delay in recruitment and went live in January 2024. 1st April 2024 - 31st March 2025 = 26 accommodated

2.

a. Rent and deposits:

2023/24 = £1,540

2024/25 = £33, 834.21 + £3,716 (other, for example, furniture and ID)

b. Incentives for landlords

2023/24 = zero

2024/25 = zero

c. Support staff

2023/24 = £14,897.13

2024/25 = £50,464.56

3. Not applicable

4. Unspent and carried forward to 2025/26 - £81,405

5. Funding has been ring-fenced for increased incentives for use to continue delivering AFEO in 2025/26