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All local authorities in England have a legal duty to provide 24-hour advice to homeless people, or those who are at risk of becoming homeless within 28 days.. A local authority must accept an application for assistance from a person seeking homelessness assistance if they have reason to believe that the person may be homeless or threatened with homelessness.
Once an individual applies to the appropriate City Council, Borough Council, District Council or Unitary Authority for assistance, from a person claiming to be homeless (or threatened with homelessness), the Local Housing Authority is also legally duty bound to make detailed inquiries into that person's circumstances, in order to decide whether ...
The Homelessness Act 2002 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It amends the Housing Act 1996 and sets out the duties owed by local housing authorities to someone who is homeless or threatened with homelessness.
Department overview; Formed: May 2006 (as the Department for Communities and Local Government) Jurisdiction: Government of the United Kingdom: Headquarters: 2 Marsham Street, London, England and i9, Railway Drive, Wolverhampton, England: Annual budget: £28.1 billion (current) & £3.5 billion (capital) for 2011–12 [1] Secretary of State ...
Regardless of department — police, fire, health — every city employee should treat homeless people with compassion and empathy, Ruais said. The vast majority of interactions are positive, he said.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Homelessness [1] was a junior position in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities which in 2024 became the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government in the British government. It was held by Felicity Buchan. [2]
The Police Reform Act 2002 does not apply to Scotland, which consequently does not have Police Community Support Officers (the acronym PCSO in Police Scotland refers to a Police Custody and Security Officer, known as a detention officer in other parts of the UK.)
Shelter was launched on 1 December 1966, evolving out of the work on behalf of homeless people then being carried on in Notting Hill in London.The launch of Shelter hugely benefited from the coincidental screening, in November 1966, of the BBC television play Cathy Come Home ten days before Shelter's launch.