Homelessness and rough sleeping

Guidance and regulation

Homelessness: duty to refer
- Guidance
- 28 September 2018
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021), and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Homelessness Prevention Grant allocations: 2025 to 2026
- Guidance
- 11 December 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ending Rough Sleeping Risk Assessment Tool (ERSRAT)
- Guidance
- 16 December 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
DATRIG housing support and rough sleeping services: privacy notice
- Guidance
- 7 January 2026
- Department of Health and Social Care
Rough Sleeping Prevention and Recovery Grant 2025 to 2026: updated allocations
- Guidance
- 10 October 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

National plan to halve long-term rough sleeping and prevent homelessness
- 11 December 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Press release
Adult social care winter letter 2025 to 2026
- 16 October 2025
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Correspondence
£84 million injection to tackle homelessness
- 10 October 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Press release
Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years 
- 10 June 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Home Office
- Press release
Emergency homelessness fund boosted to £60 million
- 25 February 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- News story

Statutory homelessness ad hoc analyses
- 19 December 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Research
Capital Letters: Process evaluation report
- 11 December 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Research
Better Outcomes through Linked Data: Local authority homelessness and rough sleeping data linking
- 11 December 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Research
Better Outcomes through Linked Data: Rough sleeping and substance use treatment
- 11 December 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Research
Better Outcomes through Linked Data: Links between homelessness and offending
- 11 December 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Research

Funding arrangements for the Homelessness Prevention Grant from 2026/27 onwards
- 20 June 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 11 March 2025
Review of the Vagrancy Act: consultation on effective replacement
- 28 November 2023
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , Home Office, and Ministry of Justice
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 05 May 2022
Technical consultation on consequential changes to the homelessness legislation
- 17 May 2023
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 25 January 2023
Tackling homelessness together
- 5 January 2023
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 16 May 2019
A National Plan to End Homelessness
- 11 December 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Policy paper