1. Homelessness and gender based violence
Tom Rhodes – Homelessness Commissioning Team, BCC

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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’

5. 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

6. Supported accommodation
Referrals to DHI RSVP service, CBT based interventions, work with police. Over 1000 bedsdpaces for single people. 110 family units (and increasing).

7. 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

9. Future commissioning Consultation period until 10th February
10% savings
Retain bedspaces
Retain women only pathway

10. Distinct pathways, negotiation

11. Any questions?