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Source: UK Government Councils to receive £203 million Rough Sleeping Initiative funding to help people off the streets – an 81% increase from the £112 million provided last year Funding will provide 14,500 bed spaces and 2,700 support staff Analysis shows programme has reduced rough sleeping by 32% Part of £750 million pledged to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping this year More rough sleepers are set to be helped off the streets and into safe accommodation thanks to a further £203 million funding, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick MP announced today (15 May 2021). The fu...

Councils given further £200 million in next stage of successful rough sleeping programme More rough sleepers are set to be helped off the streets and into safe accommodation thanks to a further £203 million funding. From: Councils to receive £203 million Rough Sleeping Initiative funding to help people off the streets – an 81% increase from the £112 million provided last year Funding will provide 14,500 bed spaces and 2,700 support staff Analysis shows programme has reduced rough sleeping by 32% Part of £750 million pledged to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping this year More r...

City councillor Karen Davis, working at the NR2 foodbank. - Credit: Karen Davis Among those to have signed it is Karen Davis, a Norwich city councillor who also runs the NR2 Foodbank in Norwich. She said the "most obvious" thing the chancellor could do to address the challenges was to retain the £20 uplift of Universal Credit - worth more than £1,000 per year for anybody claiming it. And she added that unless more support was given to the retail and hospitality industries, more and more people ran the risk of needing to use the benefits system. She said: "So many young people are now out o...

Published: 11:06 AM January 2, 2021    A survey has found that domestic abuse is a top concern among young people. - Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Domestic violence has been highlighted as a top area of concern in a survey completed by young people in Norfolk during the coronavirus pandemic. More than 200 people took part in the Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner's Youth Commission report which was launched on May 1 last year following the first nationwide lockdown. And domestic abuse was highlighted as their top area of concern particularly around an absence of education and how a la...