Homelessness and gender based violence Tom Rhodes – Homelessness Commissioning Team, BCC
Homelessness services Future commissioning Figures Provision Homelessness services Future commissioning Figures and problems with the figures. Different provision to help with homelessness. Future commissioning for homelessness services.
April – September 2016 153 homelessness presentations 7% of total presentations 13 cases where homelessness was prevented 44 duty agreed 96? DVA usually a PN category in Bristol
April – September 2016 Next Link 314 cases of homelessness prevented (234 existing home maintained, 80 found alternative accommodation) ‘Legal advice, accommodation advice, safehouse search, safety planning, TAU’
Refuges 38 general needs refuge spaces 63 households accommodated in 15-16 30 households with children 84% planned departures 8 specialist provision (complex needs) 21 people accommodated 75% planned departures Need to have a minimum of 45 refuge spaces – one per 10,000 population (450,000 people in Bristol) 1975 Select Committee on Violence in Marriage
Supported accommodation Referrals to DHI RSVP service, CBT based interventions, work with police. Over 1000 bedsdpaces for single people. 110 family units (and increasing).
Women only accommodation Level 1 Dean Crescent (21 units) Spring House (16 units) Level 2 Judith Herman House (up to 19 units) New Ways House (6 units) Level 3 Missing Link (30 units) Level 4 Phoenix Place (55 units) PfP (14 units) Settled accommodation, with or without ongoing support 161 units
Future commissioning Consultation period until 10th February 10% savings Retain bedspaces Retain women only pathway
Distinct pathways, negotiation
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