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DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST RELATING TO THIS ITEM:
 
None
 

RESOLVED:
 
That Cabinet:
 
1.   
Noted the Homelessness Review attached at Appendix?2.

2.   
Noted the outcome of the formal consultation on the Draft
Homelessness Strategy, as set out in paragraphs?6.20–6.30 of
the report.

3.   
Approved the Homelessness Strategy 2026–2027 attached at
Appendix?1.

4.   
Delegated authority to the Corporate Director of Adults and
Housing, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing and
the Director of Finance, to approve an action plan for publication
setting out how the Council and its partners would deliver the
Homelessness Strategy.
 

Reasons for decision

 
Under the Homelessness
Act?2002, local authorities were required to carry out a
homelessness review and to formulate and publish a homelessness
strategy informed by that review at least once every five years.
The Strategy proposed for adoption had been developed over more
than a year, in response to a homelessness review and with
extensive engagement from a wide range of stakeholders, including
people with lived experience of homelessness, organisations working
to support them, and respondents to the formal consultation
process.
 

Alternative options considered

 
Cabinet could have
chosen not to adopt the proposed Homelessness Strategy. This option
was not recommended because the Strategy had been developed
following a thorough review of evidence and extensive engagement
with stakeholders. Furthermore, the Council was required to take
its Homelessness Strategy into account when exercising its
functions as a local housing authority, and the Strategy required
updating for this purpose.