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Outside in: tackling the social exclusion of older homeless people
— a response to the Social Exclusion Unit on older people sleeping rough | | Author(s) | Gary Kitchen, Caroline Welch |
| Corporate Author | Help the Aged |
| Publisher | Help the Aged, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 26 pp |
| Source | Help the Aged, St James's Walk, Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R OBE. |
| Keywords | Homelessness ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Services ; Help the Aged ; Comments or Evidence submitted. |
| Annotation | Help the Aged has supported services for older homeless people for some years, and is at the start of a 5-year strategy to tackle all aspects of homelessness. This response to the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) puts the case for a better system of enumeration (how many, and how "older homeless" is defined); the importance of understanding the characteristics of older homeless people; and for service provision for the specific needs of older homeless people. Recommendations for action by central government include: a fairer allocation of resources which does not discriminate against older people; a systematic procedure for collecting statistics and a satisfactory definition of older homeless; security of funding to service providers; and improving the legislative framework by revising the Code of guidance on the Housing Act 1996. Recommendations for local government include greater consistency in: how homelessness is dealt with at local level; counting homeless people; and in the application of guidelines and definitions. A Working Party of Older Homelessness should be set up as a focal point for information and agreeing standards. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000906513 P |
| Classmark | K4A: F: I: PYH: 6PM * |
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