Making Every Contact Count: A Joint Approach to Preventing Homelessness

Through the Ministerial Working Group on Homelessness, the Government promised to bring departments together to ensure that all of Whitehall was playing its part in tackling homelessness. The first report focused on the most visible end of homelessness - those coming onto the streets, often facing advanced and overlapping problems such as offending, drug and alcohol addiction or mental health problems. Progress has been made since then - driving forward the national roll out of No Second Night Out and investing an extra £70 million through the sector to help tackle homelessness.  In this report considers how services can be managed in a way that prevents all households, regardless of whether they are families, couples, or single people, from reaching a crisis point where they are faced with homelessness.  Round Two of the Homelessness Transition Fund was announced by the charity Homeless Link on 16 August 2012.  Download a copy of the report from the CLG website.