Well its that time of the year that the Department of Communities and Local Government release the quarterly homelessness statistics and without sounding like an anorak about homelessness they do make interesting reading when you take a look at the Local Authority breakdown. I note that looking through the returns for London in particular that firstly it appears that Tower Hamlets return must have been lost in the post, or maybe left on a train. Secondly I'm surprised how many not homeless decisions that Croydon made, 229! I was also astonished by the amount of non-priority that both Ealing and Waltham Forest made 165 and 124, what makes me think they avail themselves of Now Medical in their medical assessments. Though a special mention must be made of Blackpool who made made 357 non-priority decisions whilst making one not homeless decision and 12 itentionality decisions.
More surpising is the total of 7,470 applicants in the UK that are recorded as Homeless at home. I thought that homeless at home didn't happen officially.
Please feel free to comment on any of the other statistics that catch your eyes
A Parcel of Rogues
10 years ago
3 comments:
The most ridiculous thing for me is the amount of non priority decisions. Yes Now Medical most likely has an effect on those applications taken but what about all the single homeless people who go to their Local Authority.
Take Richmondshire for example. 35 applicants who a full 193 duty was accepted but only 41 184's taken and ZERO non priority decisions made.
That suggests that every single homeless person who approached was in priority need or as is most likely all the single homeless people that weren't obviously in priority need were told to bugger off and no application was taken.
For what it is worth, I am extremely doubtful of the accuracy of the Southwark figures. Lambeth's look closer to actuality, but Southwark's can't be right, unless every single one of the refuseniks has rung my firm. Lewisham's figures are also rather suspect.
Well as someone who was born, berd and works north of the river we have always known that south of the river is suspect lol
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