New government grant to tackle homelessness
Announcement from the Department for Communities and Local Government and Marcus Jones MP yesterday 15th March on the Gov.UK website headlined ‘New grant for council homelessness services’.
The government is transforming the way councils fund homelessness services, giving them greater flexibility to prioritise homelessness prevention, Communities Minister Marcus Jones has confirmed.
The new grant will empower councils with the freedom to support the full range of homelessness services. This could include employing a homelessness prevention or tenancy support officer to work closely with people who are at risk of losing their homes.
The new grant forms part of the wide range of measures the government is taking to prevent people from becoming homeless.
Communities Minister Marcus Jones said, “This government is determined to help the most vulnerable in society, which is why we’re investing £550 million to 2020 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping.
“We’ve brought in a raft of measures over the last few months, from funding homelessness projects in 225 local authorities to changing the law by backing Bob Blackman’s Homelessness Reduction Bill to support for more people at risk of losing their homes.
“We’re now going further and giving councils greater flexibility, so they can move away from costly intervention when a household is already homeless, to preventing this happening in the first place”.
Read the announcemet on Gov.UK in full click here.
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