Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance is provided to local authorities on conducting an adult safeguarding review into the death of a homeless person.

The Government does not collect national level data on the living circumstances of the subjects of Safeguarding Adult Reviews.

The care and support statutory guidance provides the criterion for conducting Safeguarding Adult Reviews, the guidance relates to all adults and does not specify whether the review is related to the death of a homeless person.

The care and support statutory guidance states that a Safeguarding Adult Board must conduct a Safeguarding Adult Review, when an adult in its area dies or is seriously harmed as a result of abuse or neglect, whether known or suspected, and there is concern that partner agencies could have worked more effectively to protect the adult. This criterion is also used for the death of a homeless person.