Feb. 28 2024
Source Page: Scottish Local Government Finance - Green Book: 2024-2025Found: Indices Table S 3 - Calculation of Early Years Funding Indicators Table S4 – Calculation of Homelessness
Feb. 27 2024
Source Page: Supplementary Estimates 2023-24Found: Enforcement - Illegal Migration Act 40,452,000 (Section H) Immigration Enforcement - Foreign National Offenders
Feb. 27 2024
Source Page: Supplementary Estimates 2023-24Found: Enforcement - Illegal Migration Act 40,452,000 (Section H) Immigration Enforcement - Foreign National Offenders
Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Criminal Justice Bill on policing homelessness - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) Friend consider bringing forward changes to the law so that electronic monitoring can be used for offenders - Speech Link
3: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) I understand that the Government are looking to further restrict the ability of sex offenders to change - Speech Link
Special Report Feb. 22 2024
Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)Found: by ensuring victims have the support they need to engage with the criminal justice system so that offenders
Feb. 20 2024
Source Page: Statutory guidance on domestic abuse protection notices and protection ordersFound: the police are expected to provide the perpetrator with information and contact details to make a homelessness
Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) guarantee of 12 weeks’ post-release accommodation to secure that essential period of stability for offenders - Speech Link
2: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) What steps he is taking to increase sentences for dangerous offenders. - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) I recently visited Cookham Wood young offenders institution. - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, there is a solemn duty on prison governors to prepare ex-offenders - Speech Link
5: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) out the steps prisons and probation services must take to meet their duty to refer those at risk of homelessness - Speech Link
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he (a) is taking and (b) plans to take to ensure that people who are released from prison have suitable accommodation.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
A settled place to live is key to reducing reoffending, cutting crime and protecting the public. Our Prisons Strategy White Paper set out our plans to reduce reoffending, including improving prison leavers’ access to accommodation.
In July 2021, we launched a new transitional accommodation service, Community Accommodation Service - Tier 3 (CAS3), providing up to 12 weeks accommodation on release with support to move to settled accommodation, for those leaving prison at risk of homelessness, in five probation regions. The service is now operating in all 12 probation regions, and new places continue to be added as it develops. From the commencement of the service on 1 July 2021 up to 31 March 2023, a total of 5,796 people were placed in CAS3 accommodation.
We are working closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, through its Accommodation for Ex-Offenders scheme (AfEO), to build a pathway from prison, ensuring prison leavers can move-on into settled accommodation. We have also increased the number of Strategic Housing Specialists across England and Wales to 48 FTE and have embedded the Homelessness Prevention Teams within Probation regions to strengthen strategic relationships between prisons, probation and local authorities and build accommodation pathways.
Written Evidence Feb. 09 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: announcement have suggested that any foreign prison transfer scheme is likely to involve convicted offenders
Found: (providers). 2 MoJ introduced reforms to legal aid in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders