Local authority spending on homelessness: understanding recent trends and their impact

According to this report, nine years of government cuts have left local services for single homeless people with a shocking £ 1bn a year funding gap. It warns that cuts to council budgets are leaving increasing numbers of people at risk on the streets, and calls on the government to act now to make up the funding shortfall – or inevitably face missing its target of ending rough sleeping by 2027

Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news