Homelessness: Death

(asked on 5th November 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to (1) collate Safeguarding Adult Reviews in relation to the deaths of homeless people, and (2) conduct a review to identify patterns and amend policy accordingly.


Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 15th November 2018

We have not provided guidance, instructions or resources to local authorities for Safeguarding Adult Reviews related to the death of homeless people.

At present we do not hold data on how many homeless people died in the last year. Our statistics on Adult Safeguarding Reviews does not include information on place of residence, however, the Office for National Statistics is preparing to publish official estimates in December as experimental statistics.

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