Research by Homeless Link, the umbrella body for homeless charities, indicates that cuts in public funding are already having an impact - with services closing, fewer beds available and more projects having to turn homeless people away. The annual SNAP study (Survey of Needs and Provision) charts changes across homeless services in England. The survey of 500 day centres and accommodation projects, carried out in September 2010, highlights a number of worrying trends:
Falling funding
* 70% of all services cited ‘funding’ as the top issue facing their project,
* 50% of services said that they had seen a reduction in income in 2010. Of this group, 63% believed that lower funding had impacted on clients,
* The two most common impacts of the cuts cited were reduction in staff and reduced services and/or closures.
Read more and download a copy of the research report on the Homeless Link website.
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