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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." Don't 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 recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about ...

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 Government's 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 the beginning of the pandemic by in many cases placing them in hotels and bed and breakfasts, will...

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 when homelessness charities made calls for it to return during England’s second national lockdown i...

Some of Britain's top LGBT+ charities have voiced concern over the government's 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 did previously. The emergency measures, first introduced in March 2020, saw the government requir...

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 Reduction Act has already prevented and relieved over 270,000 households from becoming homeless Coun...