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READING West MP Alok Sharma talks this week about plans to end rough sleeping. He writes; The Government is committed to ending rough sleeping in this Parliament and to fully enforcing the Homelessness Reduction Act. That is why we will be spending more than £750 million in 2021/22 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. The Government has this week announced the allocation of a key element of this overall investment: £310 million in funding through the Homelessness Prevention Grant that will be made available to local authorities in 2021/22 to support them in delivering services to prevent and tackle homelessness.
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 governmentâs Next Steps Accommodation Programme.
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The money will be used to provide winter night shelter provision to all those identified as rough sleeping in Newark and Sherwood between November 2020 and March 2021.
A rough sleeper in Oxford OXFORD s 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 national programme called Everyone In which has aimed to temporarily house as many homeless people as possible and prevent Covid spreading among them.