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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to provide extra support to get homeless off streets in Newark and Sherwood  | Updated: 11:44, 29 December 2020 Extra support is to be made available for the homeless in Newark and Sherwood thanks to a government grant. The district council has secured £22,846 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to provide additional support and advice for homeless people and rough sleepers through the government’s Next S...

A rough sleeper in Oxford OXFORDs city council is committing £9.1m of public money to tackling homelessness in its budget for next year, The budget, which is currently in a draft form that needs to be approved, includes plans to spend extra funding from the Government, bringing its original plans to spend £8.2m on homelessness prevention up by almost a further million. The council has also highlighted how it has spent extra money on tackling rough sleeping in the current year due to a n...

Extra accommodation for rough sleepers to be created in South Lakeland 18/12/2020 Extra bed spaces for rough sleepers or people at risk of rough sleeping are to be created in South Lakeland thanks to a successful £388,987 funding bid to government. South Lakeland District Council’s Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme will create an additional 12 move-on bed spaces, including four complex needs spaces. These will be hosted by Home Group, utilising their housing stock around the district....

MORE than £9 million has been budgeted to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping in Oxford next year. Oxford City Council announced it will budget £9.1 million, an increase on the £6.3 million spent in 2019-20. As the country entered the first lockdown in March, the Government issued an ‘everyone in’ direction for councils to provide emergency housing for rough sleepers and vulnerable homeless people to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Short-term funding to provide this came f...

BBC News By Jonathan Blake and Brian Wheeler BBC News image captionTemporary accommodation is not always suitable for families The number of people in temporary accommodation in England is at its highest level in 14 years, says a new report by charity Shelter. It jumped by 6,000 in the first three months of the pandemic and now stands at 253,000, according to Shelters analysis of government data. Temporary accommodation offered by councils ranges from bed and breakfasts to self-contained flats....