Rough sleeping winter pressures 2024-25 funding allocations
Rough sleeping winter pressures funding allocations to local authorities identified as facing the greatest pressures in winter 2024-25.
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The winter period is particularly high-risk for individuals sleeping rough due to increased risks of ill health from extreme weather conditions. People who are homeless or rough sleeping are 8 to 12 times more likely than the general population to die prematurely, particularly from chronic cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
In recognition of the significant pressures that local areas face in increasing provision of emergency accommodation and additional support required to safeguard vulnerable people at risk from sleeping rough this winter, the government provided £10 million in Rough Sleeping Winter Pressures 2024-25 funding to local authorities in November 2024. The government announced a further £20 million on 20 January 2025.
The government announced a further £30 million investment on 25 February 2025. This new investment will enable local authorities to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping by helping people to sustain their accommodation.
Winter Pressures 2024-25 funding has been made available to 295 English local authorities. The funding table represents the total allocation per local authority to date.
This funding complements the Rough Sleeping Initiative 2022-25 in supporting local authorities to create additional off the street capacity for people sleeping rough in winter, including providing support to veterans, care leavers and victims of domestic abuse at risk of, or currently experiencing rough sleeping, as well as to people who have slept rough long term. Ultimately, services provided with the winter pressures funding will reduce the risk of deaths from exposure to extreme weather for the most vulnerable individuals.
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