Homeless Deaths
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information about the deaths of people experiencing homelessness. Please can I request information about the number of deaths from 1st January 2024 - 31st December 2024 (inclusive) in your local authority area, in each of the following housing situations: · accommodation for homeless people, commissioned or directly delivered by your council, including nightshelter, hostels and supported housing services for people rough sleeping or with a history of rough sleeping · exempt accommodation · interim, emergency or temporary accommodation (commissioned or directly delivered) offered under Part VII Housing Act · supported accommodation for homeless young people (commissioned and directly delivered) · refuge accommodation for survivors of domestic abuse · rough sleeping or with no fixed abode We are seeking this information about adults and children of all ages who were experiencing homelessness at the time of their death. Please include the cause or suspected cause of death, date of death, the person's gender, age when they died, ethnicity, and immigration status. If you cannot provide all of this information, then please just provide all that you can. Following the joint Ministerial letter to all Safeguarding Adult Board (SAB) Chairs, Adult Social Care and Housing Directors in England in May 2024, some of the information requested is likely now being collected and monitored by your local SAB. As such, it may be useful to bring this request to the attention of the Safeguarding Adult Board Manager for your area. The relevant officer(s) completing the request may also want to share their final response with the Board Manager for governance purposes. Please provide the information in the Excel document attached.