Night Shelters: Coronavirus

(asked on 19th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's publication of 13 October 2020 on COVID-19: provision of night shelters - Operating principles for commissioners and providers of night shelters for people experiencing rough sleeping, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure local authorities have adequate supplies of personal protective equipment for staff and volunteers working in night shelters.


Answered by
Christopher Pincher Portrait
Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 27th October 2020

Rough sleeping services?previously had access to emergency PPE supplies via?Local Resilience Forums (LRFs).? DHSC has now offered to distribute PPE to every local authority directly, or via their LRF where preferred, and the majority of local authorities are now receiving PPE through this route.??This PPE can be made available to rough sleeping services as required by Covid-19 guidance.

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