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Information and guidance for local authorities compiling the P1E quarterly data returns on homelessness.
When and how council statutory homelessness duties apply within the scheme.
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 homelessness for local authorities.
Guidance on housing authority duties to carry out a homelessness review and publish a homelessness strategy.
Guidance on the initial assessments required to determine the duties owed to a person applying for homelessness assistance; personalised housing plans and the reasonable steps to be taken to prevent or relieve homelessness.
Guidance on providing homelessness services to people who have experienced or are at risk of domestic violence or abuse.
The purpose of the code and the relevant equality duties that housing authorities need to consider in carrying out their duties.
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