Issue - meetings

Committee considered a report in relation to a revised draft North Derbyshire Rough Sleeper Strategy 2021–2023.

It was a legal requirement for the Council to have a published Rough Sleeper Strategy in place. 

The draft Rough Sleeper Strategy was an updated document following the success of the 2020-21 North Derbyshire Strategy.  It outlined why it was essential to provide a package of measures to enable vulnerable members of the community who were without accommodation and suffering a range of multiple complex needs to access services and to live safely and independently.  The measures would have a positive effect on communities within the District and also took account of what the Council had done in partnership during the Pandemic.

The proposed updated Strategy continued to be rooted in a partnership approach between the Council, other statutory services, the third sector and homeless people, and also continued to be based on the three ‘pillars’ of prevention, intervention and recovery that were identified in the National Rough Sleeper Strategy.

Many of the commitments from the existing strategy remained in place as they were continuous commitments.  However, new and ambitious commitments had been added and these would maximum outcomes and act as a cornerstone for the delivery of additional activity.  

In response to a Member’s question, the Head of Housing Management & Enforcement advised Members that the Strategy positively worked - the people who had been supported through the Strategy had been given living accommodation.  The partnership received grant funding and this supported a 17 unit residential accommodation for rough sleepers that all three authorities had access rights to 24/7.

Members welcomed the report and thanked the Head of Housing Management & Enforcement for attending the meeting.

Moved by Councillor Rose Bowler and seconded by Councillor Ray Heffer

RESOLVED that the report be noted.