Consultation on Street Population Action Plan 2009/12

Consultation on Street Population Action Plan 2009/12

The council is currently seeking views from partner agencies and service providers on the borough's Street Population Action Plan 2009/12.

A consultation event is being held from 9am-2pm on 8th July at London Corinthians Sailing Club, 60 Upper Mall, London, W6 9TA so we can engage with partners to feed their views into the development of this plan.  To assist in this a consultation document has been produced that shows the boroughs priorities for reducing street related activity such as rough sleeping, begging, street drinking etc and we would like you to read this before the event and consider the questions below to aid you in this.

The consultation event will give stakeholders an opportunity to attend a workshop to enable the council to hear your feedback on the document and what you think the council and its partners should be doing to address these issues. We can then include this within the plan itself.

For more information on this consultation or to book a place for the event please contact Mark Green on 0208 753 2459 or email mark.green@lbhf.gov.uk

» Street Population Action Plan 2009/12 consultation (pdf)

Questions for Street Population Consultation

1. Do you think the mission statement and draft themes are strategically relevant in addressing rough sleeping and street population activities in the borough?

2. Are the aims under each theme sufficient in delivering the strategic objectives?

3. Is the current partnership structure the right one to deliver the objectives?

4. Working effectively with the street population requires balancing the enforcement/social care agenda as well as social inclusion and human rights.  How do you see the balance of these agendas working to the desired effect? For example using enforcement as a means to encourage individuals to engage with services such as social care, support and accommodation

5. How do you see your service area contributing towards the reduction in the numbers of rough sleepers? 

6. Based upon your own experience and field of work how do we achieve positive outcomes for the most entrenched rough sleepers in the borough?

7. What additional services would you like to see delivered in the borough to help rough sleepers off the streets and into a more settled way of life?

8. Tackling the issue of rough sleeping amongst Eastern European nationals and those other migrants with no recourse to public funds is perhaps the most challenging group to work with. What do you think we as a borough should be doing to address this issue?