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Westminster City Council Draft Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy.pdf
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Homelessness Review Executive Summary Draft .pdf
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Westminster Review of Homelessness Draft .pdf
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Westminster Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy - Easy Read Draft.pdf
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Section 2 - Your views

Summary of the Homelessness & Rough Sleeping Strategy

Our ambition is to prevent homelessness and make clear progress towards ending rough sleeping. The draft strategy attached to this survey outlines our intentions to achieving this ambition. We are looking for your views on the strategy. 

We are proposing to take a new approach to preventing homelessness in Westminster. 

Our previous homelessness strategy was focused heavily on helping people who are at immediate risk of homelessness, or already experiencing homelessness. There are steps we can take to help prevent homelessness earlier.

When people reach crisis point, the options available to them are often limited. By supporting people earlier, we can prevent homelessness more often and reduce the impact this has on people’s lives. When people are experiencing homelessness, we can prevent the risk of repeat homelessness with recovery and re-housing support.

Our new approach is based around four commitments to ensure homelessness is prevented early, rare, brief and non-recurring. The Westminster Homelessness & Rough Sleeping Strategy Draft describes each commitment; what we are aiming to achieve, where we are now, what we will do differently and our key commitments. In this survey, we want to know if you think we have the right priorities and to get your views on what will have the most impact. 

Commitment 1: Homelessness is prevented at the earliest opportunity

We want people to get practical early support so that they do not reach housing crisis.

Commitment 2: Homelessness is rare

We want to be highly effective at preventing homelessness when people are in crisis through practical person-centred advice and support. 

Commitment 3: Homelessness is brief

We want to make sure that if people are experiencing homeless, they can find somewhere settled to live as quickly as possible and provide good quality accommodation. 

Commitment 4: Homelessness is non-recurring

We want to make sure that people can move on from homelessness successfully, and not experience it again.  

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The strategy makes a number of commitments to support those experiencing Rough Sleeping. 

These include: 

  • Re-designing our single persons offer to provide practical and rapid help 
  • Working to take a pan-London approach and with the GLA
  • Improving our use of data and evidence use in prevention
  • Providing training to enable staff to respond to vulnerabilities such as mental health issues in a trauma informed way
  • Working in partnership to strengthen prevention and sharing of resources
  • Working with the Home Office to support policy change that prevents homelessness for those seeking asylum and newly granted refugees.  

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This strategy has a particular focus on the experiences of those with multiple disadvantages (such as people who have both health and housing issues), those with difficulties accessing services due to issues such as restricted immigration, and those who are often ‘hidden’ homeless such as people who are LGBTQIA+ or women that often are not captured in data sets. 

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