Response - Homelessness Code of Guidance for Local Authorities

By: Jim Bennett
Published: October 2002

Response - Homelessness Code of Guidance for Local Authorities

Overall Shelter believed that the Homelessness Code of Guidance provided a comprehensive resource for local authorities and accurately reflects the policy intentions behind the changes that the Homelessness Act 2002 and the Homelessness (Priority Need)(England) Order have introduced.

Shelter had three main areas of concern:

  • a restrictive approach to the new priority need categories

  • the position of homeless former asylum seekers leaving their National Asylum Support Service (NASS) accommodation

  • homelessness functions where the local authority no longer has a landlord function.