Purpose

To award contract(s) for the provision of housing related support to increase routes / offers of accommodation by Christmas in line with the newly announced national rough sleeping programme.

Decision

To award grants to 10 VCSE organisations under the Rough Sleeping Programme totalling £846,068:

·       Barnabus

·       Caritas

·       Centrepoint

·       Coffee4Craig

·       Greater Together Manchester

·       Manchester Community Central (facilitating Real Change)

·       MASH

·       Mustard Tree

·       Our Room

·       Reach Out to the Community

Local areas are tasked with delivering the Rough Sleeping Programme utilising funding provided via grant provided by MHCLG via Mayoral Strategic Authorities (MSAs). The programme provides funding for:

·       a ‘route off the streets’, to ensure every area can make an offer of support or accommodation, so that people sleeping rough have a route off the streets before Christmas this year

·       settled accommodation with intensive wraparound support, to fund the delivery of long-term homes and intensive support for people who have experienced the longest periods of rough sleeping and face the greatest barriers to leaving the streets permanently.

Local areas are given flexibility to design support around individual need, drawing on outreach intelligence and working closely with partners including the voluntary sector to provide an integrated offer. This grants programme has therefore been implemented to ensure offers of support or accommodation can be more widely made through this strong network in the city. Organisations will particularly focus support on people where the Council does not have a statutory accommodation duty, who are newly rough sleeping or who benefit from bespoke engagement support.