Ending Rough Sleeping Risk Assessment Tool (ERSRAT)
This toolkit is intended to support local authorities and the wider homelessness and rough sleeping sector to help to assess the risk of a person sleeping rough long-term to support local decision making on service offers.
Applies to England
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The Ending Rough Sleeping Risk Assessment Tool has been produced in collaboration with local authorities. It provides a framework for assessing the risk of an individual sleeping rough long term on the basis of their needs and experiences. It equips local authorities and homelessness services with a practical tool to identify risk early, prioritise resources effectively, and deliver targeted interventions that tackle homelessness and rough sleeping and prevent them before they occur.
A National Plan to End Homelessness states:
We’re investing in homelessness services to act early, supporting councils with the tools and flexibility they need and ensuring there’s join-up between public services to prevent rather than just manage crises.
ERSRAT is a key component of this approach. It equips local authorities and homelessness services with a practical tool to identify risk early, prioritise resources effectively, and deliver targeted interventions that help prevent homelessness and rough sleeping before they occur.
Supporting documents:
- ERSRAT tool: This is the tool in an excel document format. It provides a set of questions, answers to which are already gathered when talking to clients. And outlines further information which can be collected to help understand the client’s journey after the assessment.
- Guidance document: This sets out who the tool is for and when and how to use it.