Critical Lack Of Mental Health Services For Rough Sleeper

There is a critical lack of mental health services for Britain’s rough-sleeping homeless population, according to a new report from the charity St Mungo’s. To compile its report, the homelessness charity submitted Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to health and local authority commissioners in 111 areas. They were selected on the basis of having 10 or more rough sleepers on any one night. The aim was to identify the services providing mental health assessment, support and treatment for adults sleeping rough.  The report, ‘Stop the Scandal: the case for action on mental health and rough sleeping’, claims that over two thirds (68% of these areas fail to commission specialist mental health services. Read more on the St Mungo’s website.