Select committee: Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 12
1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
Published 15 Jul 2026
Addressed to Government Equalities Office
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Statutory services should be required to play a stronger role in tackling homelessness. We welcome the focus in the National Plan to End Homelessness on switching from crisis response to prevention of homelessness and the proposed “duty to collaborate” to help achieve that ambition. The lack of an explicit link between the proposed “duty to collaborate” and tackling racial disparities in homelessness risk is, however, a missed opportunity that we urge the government to address. (Conclusion, Paragraph 73)
From: Women and Equalities Committee, 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness (HC 517), 15 July 2026
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 15 September 2026, 47 days ago.