1. Stone Cold – Landlords and Tenants
Lesson Two – Sleeping Rough In London

2. Lesson Objectives
To gain an idea of how many rough sleepers are in London.
To be able to apply that knowledge to Link’s predicament in the book.
To make inferences from graphs and diagrams about the reasons for people becoming homeless based on statistical data.

3. Visualising the Language
Draw the image that comes to mind from the terms ‘rough sleeper’.
Label with your perceptions of what it means to sleep rough. How does it feel? Why do they look the way they do?

4. Analysis of statistics
We will be using real- life data from the CHAIN report to inform our knowledge of Link’s situation as a ‘rough sleeper’.
These statistics only reflect people who slept rough for one night only.
Make sure the class know that these statistics only reflect people who slept rough for one night only. This data does not include information on people who were on the streets for longer than one night.
Use basketball questioning to encourage pupils to explain their predictions and challenge one another.
All the statistics you will look at come from the CHAIN report on the number of homeless people sleeping out for their first night in London between April and June 2014.
Using your mini- whiteboard, estimate the number of rough sleepers you expect to have slept on the streets for one night only from April- June 2013.
Hold up your answers and share the reason for your choice.

5. Reading the Graphs
Look at Graph 1 and answer the following question: a) What number of new rough sleepers slept out for one night from April-June 2013?
Get pupils to record their answers on their mini- whiteboards and hold them up. Challenge pupils and use basketball questioning to encourage them to engage with the answer. E.g. Why do you think the number was higher than you anticipated? What does this tell you about the homelessness problem in London? What do you think the government should do?
Look at your prediction. Were you surprised? Why/ why not?

7. Synthesis Grid
Read each graph and record your findings on the synthesis grid.
Photocopy the synthesis grid from the Tactical Teaching book, or ask class to design their own. Pupils will record answers to the graphs in the grid, and synthesise the plenary answers on the sheet.
Use the questions on the following slides to help structure your findings.
You must find out at least three key points from each graph, but feel free to add anything else you notice that you think is important.

8. Graph One
Graph One: All London Boroughs Achieving No Second Night Out (April 2013-June 2014)
1 a) What number of new rough sleepers slept out for one night from April-June 2013?
b) How does this compare to the numbers of new rough sleepers sleeping put for one night April-June 2014?
c) What reasons can you think of that would explain why people might sleep rough for a night? Think about the issues raised in Stone Cold as well as discussions in class.

9. Graph One
When were there the most new rough sleepers joining the living on the streets population?
3) What season had the most rough sleepers? Why do you think this is?

10. Graph Two
Graph Two: Nationality 1) Rank order, from highest to lowest, the nationalities of people sleeping rough on the streets of London from April-June ) Look at the figures for Central and East European countries. a) Which country has seen the biggest rise in the number of rough sleepers on the streets of London from Oct-Dec 2013 to April-June 2014? b) Which country has seen the biggest fall in the number of rough sleepers on the streets of London from Oct-Dec 2013 to April-June 2014?

11. Graph Two
2) c) Compare the total figures for Central and East European rough sleepers in London from Oct-Dec 2013 to April-June How many more rough sleepers are there in April-June? 3) Using your own knowledge and opinions, try and explain why there are a greater number of rough sleepers in London from the UK and Central and East Europe compared to other parts of the world.

13. Graph Three
Graph Three: Support Needs 1) What percentage of people sleeping rough need to be supported because of their problems with a) Their mental health? b) Alcohol? c) Drugs? 2) Are there more people on the streets with a problem that needs supporting, or without? 3) Why do the percentages on the chart exceed a total of 100%?

15. Graph Four
Rough sleepers can be found a place to live, but often this is a temporary measure, and they do not stay there. 1) How many people left temporary accommodation between April and June 2014? 2) How many were transferred to: a) some kind of medical facility? b) a hostel, shelter or local authority (LA) temporary accommodation?

16. Graph Four 3)How many people found mid to long term accommodation:
a) by privately renting their own homes?
b) by finding sheltered or supported housing?
c) by returning to their own country?
4) How many people, on leaving temporary accommodation:
a)died?
b)were taken into custody?
c)went back onto the streets?
d) disappeared from the statistics?
5) From a personal point of view, which of these statistics shocked or surprised you the most?

18. Synthesising
Use your synthesis grid to bring together the information you have found in the graphs and summarise what you have found out about homelessness.
Verbal Feedback Given
Share syntheses orally with a partner. Get them to give one another feedback which they can then record in a verbal feedback bubble. You may need to identify what makes a good synthesis with the class.
Tell your partner one thing that they did well and one thing they need to do to make their synthesis better.
Record what your partner says to you in your ‘verbal feedback’ speech bubble, just like you do when I give you verbal feedback in class.

19. Reviewing the Lesson Objectives
To gain an idea of how many rough sleepers are in London.
To be able to apply that knowledge to Link’s predicament in the book.
To make inferences from graphs and diagrams about the reasons for people becoming homeless based on statistical data.
Based on your synthesis of the graphs, list three problems faced by Link.
Why do you think people become homeless in London?