Over £600,000 given to help home Wiltshire's rough sleepers

Wiltshire Council has received a share of a large nationwide grant that will help them provide more permanent places to live for rough sleepers.

They will be given £619,000 to oversee schemes that provide 'move on' style accommodation for this living on the county's streets.

The funding is part of the government's £433million investment to deliver 6,000 new homes across the country, 410 of which will be created in the South West by the end of March 2021.

Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said:

"Our 'Everyone In' plan is widely considered the most effective action taken by any country in the world to protect those sleeping rough from the pandemic.

And that work hasn't stopped - 29,000 rough sleepers and other vulnerable people have been supported into safe accommodation since the start of Covid-19.

The next step in our mission is to ensure they have a more settled home.

This is why we are providing over £150million, as part of the biggest ever investment in homes for the homeless, to deliver over 3,000 new long-term homes across England, giving them the stability and security they need to start to rebuild their lives."

This money is on top of the funding allocated to them in September.

Wiltshire Council was given £47,456 to fund their local plans for rough sleepers.

EMERGENCY APPEAL

Earlier this year, homelessness charity Alabare said they were lots of people leaving emergency accommodation and going back to the streets.

They launched an urgent appeal to help provide long-term solutions to this problem.

To support their work and donate to the charity, visit their website.