Consultation outcome

Tackling homelessness together

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Published: 21 February 2019
• Last updated: 5 January 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

This consultation was conducted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and sought views on structures that support partnership working and accountability in homelessness services. Our work to support people off the streets and protect the most vulnerable from COVID-19 delivered a step change in partnership working and demonstrated the powerful impact that we can have when government, local government, and the voluntary and community sector work together with health and housing partners. 

We have brought forward a bold, new strategy to end rough sleeping which sets out how we will build on this success to end rough sleeping for good, through continued working with partners across government departments, local authorities and the voluntary sector, and so will not be responding separately to this consultation.

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Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks views on how the government could improve local accountability for the delivery of homelessness services.

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 21 February 2019 to 11:45pm on 16 May 2019

Consultation description

A consultation on structures that support partnership working and accountability in homelessness services.

We are seeking views on:

• the effectiveness of existing non-statutory and statutory local accountability and partnership structures in homelessness services
• whether the government should introduce Homelessness Reduction Boards and, if so, how this could be done most effectively
• how else we might improve local accountability and partnership working in homelessness services

Documents

Tackling homelessness together: a consultation on structures that support partnership working and accountability in homelessness

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-5427-2

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Published 21 February 2019
Last updated 5 January 2023 + show all updates

1. 5 January 2023

   Consultation closed with explanation

2. 21 February 2019

   First published.