The role of ‘Assertive Outreach’ in ending rough sleeping
This is AHURI Final Report No 179, January 2012, explores the ‘assertive outreach’ approach to ending homelessness for people sleeping rough in Australia. It is concerned with how assertive outreach has been conceptualised and implemented into practice in Australia and the extent to which it is achieving its policy intent.
Rough Living: surviving violence and homelessness
The links between homelessness and trauma are explored in Rough Living: Surviving Violence and Homelessness, a new report by the Homeless Persons Legal Service (HPLS) and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) launched on 15 December 2010 in Sydney.
Battered, broken, bereft, why people still end up rough sleeping (from England)
Three out of five outreach workers across England say they are seeing an increasing number of rough sleepers, according to new research published by English homelessness charity St Mungo’s.
Almost three quarters (71%) of those outreach workers surveyed did not believe that there was enough emergency accommodation for rough sleepers in their area.
The figures come from a new report ‘Battered, broken, bereft – why people still end up rough sleeping’ – St Mungos rough sleeping report October 2011.
This includes findings from the first ever survey of outreach workers across England as well as statistics from St Mungo’s survey of its 1,500 clients.