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Charities write open letter urging government to provide essential funding for the homeless during third lockdown "Please don’t let the people we support become the daily statistics we see in the media." Dont miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Click here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recomm...

MHCLG Twitter spat with Starmer over renewal of rough sleeper policy Sir Keir Starmer has been publicly rebuked on Twitter by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Governments official civil service account for describing it as “shocking and extremely irresponsible” that the government has not renewed its ‘Everyone In’ homelessness pledge. The Labour leader posted an article in the I newspaper which claimed that the Everyone In policy, which helped 15,000 people off the street at...

Submitting... What is the Everyone In scheme? The Everyone In scheme provided temporary accommodation, including hotels, for homeless people and rough sleepers when the coronavirus pandemic first hit. A University College London (UCL) study found that the scheme, which moved nearly 15,000 homeless people into emergency accommodation in March and April, saved tens of thousands of England’s most vulnerable people from catching Covid-19. However, the scheme ended in May and did not begin again w...

Some of Britains top LGBT+ charities have voiced concern over the governments now wavering support for rough sleepers. (Stock photograph from Elements Envato) Some of Britain’s top LGBT+ homeless charities have urged the government not to ditch a vital emergency housing scheme amid a third national lockdown. As another lockdown paralyses England until at least mid-February, the government is yet to confirm if it will provide rough sleepers with shelter as part of its Everyone In scheme, as it...

Government pledges further £310 million to tackle homelessness Councils will receive additional government support to prevent vulnerable people becoming homeless. From: 21 December 2020 Funding targeted at areas with high numbers of homeless people, those at risk of homelessness, or those living in temporary accommodation Increase of £47 million on this year, bringing total funding to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping next year to more than £750 million The Homelessness ...

The spending follows the Government’s ‘Everyone In’ campaign to house rough sleepers during the coronavirus pandemic.  By September, the campaign had supported over 29,000 vulnerable people, with two-thirds now moved into settled accommodation.   Ministers are also seeking to ensure  there is no bailiff enforcement action over the Christmas period apart from in the most serious cases.  Communities Secretary Robert  Jenrick said:  “As we look back on an incre...

LEADING public-health bodies are demanding that the government provides greater financial support to people on low incomes who are self-isolating — to ensure that infection-control measures are effective. Today the British Medical Association, Scottish Academy of Royal Colleges, Doctors Association UK and other public-health bodies wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson raising concerns that too many people in precarious and low-wage employment cannot afford to miss work and self-isolate wi...

writes Powys County Council leader Rosemarie Harris. The year started with a bang as the county suffered a series of violent storms bringing flooding and damage to a number of communities, the damage was widespread but Crickhowell, Welshpool, Ystradgynlais and Knighton were particularly hard hit. The main clean-up operations were barely over – some will take years to recover - when coronavirus hit and our world has not been the same since. Currently we are all preparing for a very diffe...

Extra help for rough sleepers with drug and alcohol dependency Rough sleepers across England will receive extra support to help them recover from drug and alcohol misuse. From: 14 December 2020 £23 million investment for 43 areas this year, boosted by a further £52 million in 2021 to 2022 Initial £10 million funding confirmed to provide extra accommodation for rough sleepers throughout winter Rough sleepers across England will receive extra support to help them recover from drug and alco...