Issue - meetings

RESOLVED that the North Derbyshire Rough Sleeper Strategy 2021-2023 be approved.

Executive considered a report of the Portfolio Holder – Housing that set out and sought adoption of a revised North Derbyshire Rough Sleeper Strategy 2021-2023.  A copy of the proposed strategy was attached to the report at Appendix 1.

The report set out that the Rough Sleeper Strategy was a refreshed document that outlined why it was essential to provide a package of measures to enable vulnerable members of the community, without accommodation and suffering a range of multiple complex needs, to access services and to live safely and independently.  The updated strategy continued to be rooted in a partnership approach between the Council, other statutory services, the third sector and homeless people.

Moved by Councillor Sandra Peake and seconded by Councillor Duncan McGregor

RESOLVED that the North Derbyshire Rough Sleeper Strategy 2021-2023 be approved.

(Assistant Director of Housing Management and Enforcement)

REASON FOR DECISION:

There was a legal requirement to have a published Rough Sleeper Strategy in place.

OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERED:

To not approve the proposed strategy would put the Council in breach of its legal requirement to have a published strategy and would have a negative impact on the health and wellbeing of considerably vulnerable individuals.