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The proposed Interim Homelessness Strategy is intended to meet our legal duty to publish a Homelessness Strategy as set out in the Homelessness Act 2002. This interim strategy will satisfy this legal requirement until a more detailed strategy can be developed later in 2018.

The Committee approved the Interim Homelessness Strategy.

The Committee received and considered a report seeking approval of an Interim Homelessness Strategy.

The Strategy was intended to meet the Council’s legal duty to publish a Homelessness Strategy in accordance with the Homelessness Act 2002 in the light of the fact that the new Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 was due to introduce significant changes to how local housing authorities managed homelessness with a far greater emphasis on preventing homelessness.

The Council was about to embark on a substantial review of homelessness within the Borough culminating in a further report to committee later in 2018/19 setting out a more definitive strategy for this area incorporating the requirements of the 2017 legislation.

The Committee approved the Interim Homelessness Strategy.