We pressed MHCLG on the poor coordination in funding for homelessness caused by the absence of a cross-government strategy. Local authorities need to understand numerous funding streams, from different government departments. MHCLG explained that its November 2024 local government funding policy statement undertook to roll together three of its funding streams for 2025–26–the Rough Sleeping Initiative, the Ex-Offenders Grant and Housing First–to sit alongside the main Homelessness Prevention ...

We pressed MHCLG on the poor coordination in funding for homelessness caused by the absence of a cross-government strategy. Local authorities need to understand numerous funding streams, from different government departments. MHCLG explained that its November 2024 local government funding policy statement undertook to roll together three of its funding streams for 2025–26–the Rough Sleeping Initiative, the Ex-Offenders Grant and Housing First–to sit alongside the main Homelessness Prevention Grant. It acknowledged there were too many funding streams going into local government and said that it is committed to synthesising other grant funding Type: conclusion | Number: 28 | Response status: accepted Government response: 5.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: after Spending Review 2025 5.2 For 2025-26, MHCLG will be consolidating its main rough sleeping and single homelessness focused grants (Rough Sleeping Initiative, which includes