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Homelessness

Proceeding contribution from Robert Jenrick (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 29 January 2020. It occurred during Opposition day on Homelessness.

I will come on to the strategy. I know the Good Shepherd centre’s work; in fact, I volunteered there as a child, growing up in Wolverhampton.

The centre of our work is our rough sleeping initiative. That involves our team of rough sleeping advisers working closely with local authorities to deliver vital services to help people who are sleeping rough. I take the opportunity to pay tribute to those local authorities, and the charities and organisations and their volunteers, who are taking part in the RSI. Our evaluation concluded that the rough sleeping initiative was working. It is seeing an almost one-third reduction in vulnerable people sleeping rough in those areas that are funded by the initiative, compared with what would have happened if those areas had not been part of the initiative.

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Reference

670 c852 

Session

2019-21

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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