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Six North Wales Councils join forces to fight homelessness
Published: 22/01/2019
The six counties of North Wales, have joined in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru, to publish People, Homes and Services: A regional approach to tackling homelessness in North Wales.听
The six local authorities are:
鈥� Conwy County Council
鈥� Denbighshire County Council听
鈥� 天涯社区听
鈥� Gwynedd County Council
鈥� Isle of Anglesey County Council
鈥� Wrexham County Borough Council
The document sets out a regional strategy to tackling homelessness in all its forms, whether it be rough sleeping, youth homelessness, or those living in temporary accommodation waiting on a social housing waiting list. Underpinning that strategy is a regional action plan as well as six individual action plans from each local authority.
In a joint statement the six leads on housing and homelessness, said:
鈥淭his is our joint commitment to end homelessness in North Wales.
鈥淔undamentally, this strategy recognises that homelessness, and the issues that cause it,听 has no regard for local authority boundaries and that if we are really going address this issue, then all six councils need to work together to join up data, services and solutions.
鈥淭he Welsh Government has requested that councils work more closely together and we, as the leads on homelessness in our respective authorities, recognise that tackling homelessness is an area where collaboration will work for the benefit of all our communities across the region.
鈥淭his document sets out a strategy based on working together to reach the overarching goal 鈥� eradicating homelessness in North Wales. The strategy has been developed within the context of local homelessness reviews and strategies and will inform commissioning plans and funding priorities for each local authority.鈥�
鈥� Cllr Craig ab lago 鈥� Gwynedd
鈥� Cllr Liz Roberts 鈥� Conwy
鈥� Cllr Bobby Feeley鈥� Denbighshire
鈥� Cllr Bernie Attridge 鈥� 天涯社区
鈥� Cllr David Griffiths 鈥� Wrexham
鈥� Cllr Alun Wyn Mummery 鈥� Isle of Anglesey听
CIH Cymru Director Matt Dicks said: 鈥淭he shortage of supply is a big contributing factor to people presenting as homeless, whether they are rough sleepers, those on social housing waiting lists, or those sleeping on a friend鈥檚 sofa without any prospect of any affordable permanent accommodation.
鈥淏ut all the evidence from the individual homelessness reviews, carried out by the six North Wales local authorities to inform this strategy,听 suggests a more complex explanation as to why so many are sleeping rough or waiting to be housed.
鈥淚t is about the specific groups of people in need of support, the type of homes we need to provide them with and the services that allow them to live sustainably in those homes 鈥� People, Homes and Services."
To read the North Wales Homelessness strategy听.
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