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Response 3779502

Response to request for information

Reference

3779502

Response date

22 July 2025

Request

Our Freedom of Information request:
We kindly request the information in the query below. In all questions ‘2024-2025’ refers to the financial year from April 2024 to March 2025.

We are requesting data on homelessness presentations, assessments and eligibility for this financial year (2024-2025) including:

(Questions 1 to 14) Annual total of unique individuals: 1 April 2024 - 31 March 2025
(Question 15) Quarter 3 total of unique individuals: 1 October - 31 December 2024

For Table 1:

  1. In your authority in 2024-2025, how many 16-17 year olds presented themselves as homeless, or at risk of homelessness, as a main applicant?
    This does not include general housing advice. By presenting we mean all who presented themselves as homeless even if they were not subsequently assessed. This includes individuals who presented before 56 days of becoming homeless, or at risk of homelessness, believed they were homeless but did not meet requirement, presented but were not eligible for homelessness assistance.
  1. In your authority in 2024-2025, how many 16-17 year olds were assessed:
    a- For Prevention and/or Relief duty under part 7 of the Housing Act?
    b - For further support under the Children’s Act?
    While this assessment is a new duty brought in by the HRA, it is a duty under part 7 of the Housing Act as amended by the HRA.
    Please answer Q3-7 for those under 2a only.
  2. In your authority in 2024-2025, how many 16-17 year olds received an initial decision of being owed:
    a - Prevention duty under HRA
    b - Relief duty under HRA
  1. Prevention duty ended:
  1. With accommodation secured
  2. Leading to relief duty
  3. Any other reason
  1. Relief ended:
  1. With accommodation secured
  2. for any other reason (not including those who progress to an assessment under the Housing Act 1996)
  1. In your authority in 2024-2025, how many 16-17 year olds were assessed for a statutory main housing duty under part 7 of the Housing Act?
    By this we mean following unsuccessful prevention and/or relief outcomes, how many young people underwent a final assessment under part 7 of the Housing Act in order to assess their eligibility for a statutory main housing duty
  2. In your authority in 2024-2025, how many 16-17 year olds were accepted as statutorily homeless and owed a statutory main housing duty under part 6 of the Housing Act 1996?
    After undergoing a final assessment, how many young people were accepted as statutorily homeless and offered a statutory main housing duty.

For Table 2:

  1. In your authority in 2024-2025, how many 18-24 year olds presented themselves as homeless, or at risk of homelessness, as a main applicant?
    This does not include general housing advice. By presenting we mean all who presented themselves as homeless even if they were not subsequently assessed. This includes individuals who presented before 56 days of becoming homeless, or at risk of homelessness, believed they were homeless but did not meet requirement, presented but were not eligible for homelessness assistance.
  2. In your authority in 2024-2025, how many 18-24 year olds were assessed for a Prevention and/or Relief duty under part 7 of the Housing Act?
    While this assessment is a new duty brought in by the HRA, it is a duty under part 7 of the Housing Act as amended by the HRA.
  3. In your authority in 2024-2025, how many 18-24 year olds received an initial decision of being owed:
    a - Prevention duty under HRA
    b - Relief duty under HRA
  4. Prevention duty ended:
  1. With accommodation secured
  2. Leading to relief duty
  3. Any other reason
  1. Relief ended:
  1. With accommodation secured
  2. for any other reason (not including those who progress to an assessment under the Housing Act 1996)
  1. In your authority in 2024-2025, how many 18-24 year olds were assessed for a statutory main housing duty under part 7 of the Housing Act?
    By this we mean following unsuccessful prevention and/or relief outcomes, how many young people underwent a final assessment under part 7 of the Housing Act in order to assess their eligibility for a statutory main housing duty
  2. In your authority in 2024-2025, how many 18-24 year olds were accepted as statutorily homeless and owed a statutory main housing duty under part 6 of the Housing Act 1996?
    After undergoing a final assessment, how many young people were accepted as statutorily homeless and offered a statutory main housing duty.

For Table 3:

  1. In your authority in Quarter 3 of 2024 (1st October - 31st December 2024), how many 16-24 year olds presented themselves as homeless, or at risk of homelessness, as a main applicant?
    This does not include general housing advice. By presenting we mean all who presented themselves as homeless even if they were not subsequently assessed. This might include individuals who presented before 56 days of becoming homeless, or at risk of homelessness, believed they were homeless but did not meet requirement, presented but were not eligible for homelessness assistance.

We are also requesting totals for 2024-25 for questions 1-14 broken down by gender (male, female, other/unknown/not recorded), and by the following nationality categories (UK, EEA, non-EEA and Unknown).

Please note that P1E returns are not suitable for this request as they do not provide data broken down by age.

Response

Questions 1 to 7 are a zero return.

Questions 8 - 15. 

I have to advise you that we will not be able to answer your request without exceeding the appropriate limit. This is because we are unable to provide this data due to reporting restrictions. The cost of creating a bespoke report by software provider would exceed the financial FOI threshold.

Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act makes provision for public authorities to refuse requests for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, which for local authorities is set at £450. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 2 working days in determining whether the authority holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting it. The appropriate limit is prescribed by regulation 3 of the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.

 

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