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When and how council statutory homelessness duties apply within the scheme.
Information and guidance for local authorities compiling the P1E quarterly data returns on homelessness.
Guidance on homelessness for local authorities.
Guidance on how local authorities should exercise their homelessness functions in accordance with the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 from 3 April 2018.
Your council must help if you’re legally homeless or will become homeless within 8 weeks. Help may include advice, emergency housing or longer-term housing.
A summary of the homelessness legislation and the duties, powers and obligations on housing authorities and others towards people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.
Guidance on the categories of applicant who have a priority need for accommodation if they become homeless.
Guidance on housing authority duties to carry out a homelessness review and publish a homelessness strategy.
Guidance on housing authority duties to provide free advice and information about homelessness and the prevention of homelessness, and to ensure they design advice to meet the needs of particular vulnerable groups.
Consultation on the draft homelessness code of guidance document from government to local authorities.
Guidance on housing authority duties to ensure that accommodation secured for homeless applicants is suitable.
Statutory guidance on the provision of accommodation for 16 and 17 year old young people who may be homeless and/or require accommodation.
Guidance on how to determine whether a person is homeless or threatened with homelessness according to legislation.
User engagement strategy for statutory homelessness and rough sleeping statistics
Guidance on the duty on specified public bodies to refer service users that may be homeless or threatened with homelessness to a local housing authority.
Guidance on duties owed to applicants who are threatened with becoming homeless, to try and prevent their homelessness.
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