Fewer than 2% of councils have completed a ‘bureaucratic’
£2.3m flagship programme aimed at improving homelessness services, nearly two
years after it was launched. The gold standard scheme is one of the
government’s principle programmes designed to stop town hall practices such as
placing homeless families into bed and breakfasts. Under the programme,
councils are awarded ‘bronze’, ‘silver’ or ‘gold’ status, based on completing
10 ‘challenges’, such as not placing families in B&Bs for more than six
weeks and preventing mortgage repossessions. However, figures supplied by
Winchester Council, which is running the scheme on behalf of the CLG, reveal
that no councils have reached ‘gold’ or ‘silver’ status and just five
authorities out of 326 (1.5%) have been awarded ‘bronze’. Read more on Inside
Housing.
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