Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 14
14
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Provide update on connecting homelessness data with public services and improve related data collection.
Recommendation
The Government should provide an update on its efforts to connect homelessness data with data from other public services, including health data, to take a more holistic approach to understanding the drivers of homelessness in England. It should also consider how it may improve data 46 collection and reporting of the housing circumstances of A&E admissions and GP referrals, and of school absenteeism, to improve understanding of how temporary accommodation impacts children’s health and education. (Recommendation, Paragraph 65) The Government’s strategy to end homelessness
Government response summary AI-generated
The government did not address the recommendation to update on connecting homelessness data with other public services or improving data collection for A&E, GP, and school absenteeism. Instead, it highlighted general efforts to publish a homelessness strategy, increase homelessness funding, boost affordable housing, and progress the Renters' Rights Bill.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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30. The linking of data holds significant potential for the wider public sector. Improved data linking would enable more effective government policy, drive world-class research, facilitate joined-up public services and support the delivery of wider government missions, for example tackling child poverty and tackling homelessness. 31. We are working closely across the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), the Department for Health and Social Care and the Department for Education on data linking programmes such as Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) and Better Outcomes through Linked Data (BOLD) and will be exploring how these platforms could offer short-term solutions around linking temporary accommodation and Pupil Data. 32. MHCLG has recently published a report setting out findings from the BOLD project. The ‘Repeat Homelessness’ report can be found here: Better Outcomes through Linked Data: Repeat homelessness report - GOV.UK. The Government’s strategy to end homelessness
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