North Northamptonshire Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy consultation

Overview

The draft Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2024-2029 sets out how, over the next five years, North Northamptonshire Council will work collaboratively with our partners to build on our existing approach and respond to challenges to tackle and help prevent homelessness and support those who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

With the input of local partners through a homelessness conference, we have developed a vision which sums up our over-arching goals for the strategy which is set out in five key priorities:

"Working effectively with our partners to ensure homelessness is prevented and when it does occur, we intervene and relieve homelessness efficiently by providing suitable advice, guidance, support and accommodation, and reduce the need to sleep rough in North Northamptonshire."

We are keen to give everyone in North Northamptonshire the chance to share their views and contribute to the development of this strategy, therefore we are seeking your feedback on the following five priorities:

1. Increase availability of and access to suitable accommodation to meet local need.
    
2. Embed early and effective upstream prevention, reaching people earlier to reduce homelessness.
    
3. Support people to sustain or find suitable accommodation.

4. Make rough sleeping rare, brief, and non-recurring through a comprehensive multi-agency rough sleeping service.

5. Maximise opportunities for funding and collaboration to develop effective pathways and make the best use of resources.

How to have your say

We advise that you read the current draft of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy and the supporting Data Review, before answering the online questionnaire.

If you need assistance to complete the online questionnaire or would like a copy of it in another format (including paper, easy read or large print) you can contact us by email, post or telephone. Our contact details are as follows:

Our email address: homelessnessforum@northnorthants.go.uk

Our postal address:
Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy consultation
North Northamptonshire Council
Bowling Green Road
Kettering
Northants NN15 7QX

Our telephone: 0300 126 3000

What happens next:

Your views and ideas will be collated, and required amends made to the strategy where relevant before the strategy is taken to Executive for adoption.

The deadline for response is midnight, 31 March 2024.

For information about how consultation and engagement responses are managed, please see the consultation and engagement privacy notice.