Covid-19 Lockdown: Homelessness and Rough Sleepers Debate
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Mark Pawsey
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Covid-19 Lockdown: Homelessness and Rough Sleepers
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Mr Speaker
Order. We have a lot of people who need to get in, and we have spent 15 minutes on the first three questions. We need to pick it up.
Mark Pawsey (Rugby) (Con)
I welcome the measures and the very significant funding that the Minister has announced today. Does she agree that it is important to take the same kind of approach as that taken by Rugby Borough Council through its preventing homelessness and improving lives programme? That has made a tremendous difference to local families at risk of homelessness through early intervention by a dedicated support team, working with those who are vulnerable to prepare a plan to avoid a crisis situation later.
Kelly Tolhurst
My hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is by the good practice of councils such as Rugby Borough Council and programmes of that nature that they are able to work with those families and individuals before there is a need for them to sleep rough or become homeless—it is prevention. We know that since we implemented the Homelessness Reduction Act, that has had a significant impact in many parts of the country. I am pleased that we are determined and committed to make sure we implement that even further and work with local authorities to get better results.