Rough Sleeping initiative

What is the Rough Sleeping Initiative?

The UK Government, in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparity (OHID – formerly PHE), is urgently working to reduce the number of people who are rough sleeping – these are people who were provided with emergency accommodation during the pandemic as part of the government’s ‘Everyone In’ programme, and people who are currently rough sleeping that are eligible for support.

Initially 43 areas across England received funding as part of the Rough Sleeping Drug and Alcohol Grant (RSDATG) to ensure that people who required specialist drug and alcohol support received the help they needed to access treatment and rebuild their lives.

In October 2021, the government announced a further £66 million would be available to help more Local Authorities, and as we enter phase II of the initiative, more then 60 councils across the UK have now been allocated funding through the RSDATG scheme to support rough sleepers and those at risk of becoming homeless to access one-to-one support and mentoring.

The following 62 Local Authorities have been allocated funding through the Rough Sleeping Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant:

Barnet Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Birmingham Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Bradford Brent Brighton and Hove Bristol, City of Cambridge Camden Chelmsford Cornwall County Durham Coventry Croydon Derby Doncaster Dorset Ealing East Riding of Yorkshire Enfield Exeter Great Yarmouth Greenwich Hackney & City

Haringey Hastings Herefordshire, County of Hillingdon Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Leeds Leicester Lewisham Lincoln Liverpool Luton Manchester Medway Mendip Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newcastle upon Tyne Newham Northampton Nottingham Oldham Oxford Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston

Reading Redbridge Richmond & Wandsworth Rochdale Salford Sheffield Shropshire Slough Southampton Southend on Sea Southwark Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Thanet & Canterbury Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest West Sussex Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Worcester

 

 

Partnership working with ILLY

The ILLY teams have been focused on making a real difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our communities. We have been doing this by delivering a trusted and tailored service to our clients within the NHS, Local Authorities, Prisons, Community Services – which includes both small and large service providers helping both Young People and Adults. At its heart is the LINKS CarePath system which has been developed by practitioners and configured to help clients and their families recover.

Through a competitive tender, ILLY was chosen to partner with OHID so that we can collect and process client data from participating local authorities.