Purpose

New grant funding from central government is being awarded to prevent and alleviate rough sleeping as part of the ‘Everyone In’ agenda. This decision is to accept from West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) the first amount of funding, £1,641,767 during financial year 26/27 and to allocate to key agencies and partners (including the third sector) for the delivery of a range of interventions.

Decision

The Director of Communities, Environment, Housing and Health agreed to:

a)  Accept funding of £1,641,767 for financial year 2026/27 from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority for the planning and delivery of accommodation and support to meet the winter 2026 targets of the Everyone In programme.

b)  Approve initial allocations of funding to organisations as identified in Confidential Appendix 1

c)  Approve additional Homelessness Rough Sleeping and Domestic Abuse Government grant funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, for the period 1st April 2026 to 31st March 2027 of £402,520, period 1st April 2027 to 31st March 2028 of £210,720, and for period 1st April 2028 to 31st March 2029 of £210,702.

d)  Recognise that any remaining allocations of grant to organisations as part of phase 1 of the Rough Sleeping Programme 2026/27 will be made by subsequent Administrative decisions, as a direct consequence of this Key Decision.