Mental Health Services: Sleeping Rough
(asked on 8th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many areas are funded through the £30 million programme for specialist mental health services for people sleeping rough as of 8 February 2022; what those areas are; and how many areas in total will be funded through that programme by 2023-24.
The NHS Long Term Plan committed to investing up to £30 million over five years to meet the health needs of people sleeping rough, to ensure that the parts of England most affected by rough sleeping will have better access to specialist homelessness National Health Service (NHS) mental health support, integrated with existing outreach services.
The ambition was for new specialist mental health provision for people who sleep rough to be established in 20 high-need areas by 2023/24. The NHS have met and exceeded this ambition in 2021/22 having established 23 sites, as shown in the following table:
Phase 1 (2019/20) | Phase 2 (2020/21) | Phase 3 (2021/22) |
Birmingham | Newham | Dorset |
Brighton | Liverpool | Reading |
Haringey | Southampton | Oxford |
Luton | Portsmouth | Leeds |
Hull | Bristol | Blackpool |
Lincoln | Nottingham | |
Lambeth | Stoke-on-Trent | |
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| NW London |
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| Redbridge |
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| Milton Keynes |
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| Southend |