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Since January 2007 JenkinsDuval have been working with Communities and Local Government to provide support to councils in London in meeting the Temporary Accommodation Target.

 

This work has been really successful and the numbers of households living in TA in London continues to decline. The work with CLG has included:

 

• Conducting a series of diagnostic visits for councils reliant on high numbers of TA units, to health check services and identify scope for ensuring the target is met early or on time.

 

 

• Writing and distributing the 2007 Homelessness Prevention Survey and analysing the results. The findings from this are published as Policy Briefing 19 (http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1511190)

 

 

• Producing a series of briefing papers for distribution to local authorities

 

 

• Developing a supply and demand model which can form the basis of TA Reduction Strategies for councils

 

 

• Benchmarking the costs of various forms of TA, in particular ensuring councils are getting value for money from their PSL schemes