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Cambridge Council announce new strategy to reduce rough sleeping and homelessness Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Last week, the city council’s Housing Security Committee announced a Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy, which will be in place until 2026. In November 2019, the government recorded 33 people sleeping rough in Cambridge, a 20% increase on the previous year, and research by the BBC indicates the real figure could be up to five times higher. The council will be creating a fund of c.£750,000 for 2020/21, which will be given to ‘partner organisations working on homelessnes...

MOVES to stop coronavirus from spreading among homeless rough sleepers has led to a huge effort to bring people in off the streets over the last year. The efforts as part of a national Government-backed initiative called Everyone In has housed approximately 30,000 people across the UK. But it fell to local hands to sort out how this scheme would play out. Now, one of the people leading Oxford’s effort to help the homeless avoid Covid has spoken about the challenges of the task throughout 2020. Paul Wilding, Oxford City Council’s Rough Sleeping and Single Homelessness Manager, sa...

Latest civil service & public affairs moves — January 25 New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People Home Office Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office – Simon Thomas has been appointed Her Majesty’s ambassador to the Republic of Croatia in succession to Andrew Dalgleish. Lindsay Skoll has been appointed Her Majesty’s ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the UN in Vienna in succession to Leigh Turner. Jon Benjamin has been appointed Her Majesty’s ambassador to Mexico in succession to Ms Corin Ro...

Date Time Extreme heat prompts state-wide Code Red alert Scorching hot weather across South Australia over the next few days has prompted a statewide Code Red response to provide additional services for people sleeping rough. For metropolitan Adelaide the Housing Authority has activated a Code Red across South Australia from tonight, ending the morning of Monday January 25. For the regions, the Code Red begins tonight, ending the morning of Wednesday, January 27. During a Code Red activation, Housing SA, together with its non-government partners, makes additional accommodation and services av...

Share She wrote: 'Following on from some devastating news for my family, after much consideration and deep reflection, it is with the great sadness that I am writing to notify you of my intention to step down from my role as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government, so that I am able to care for, and spend some precious time with my family in the coming months. 'It has been an immense privilege to serve in your Government under three different departments - in my current role as Rough Sleeping & Housing Minister, and previously a...