11th October 2011
The third edition of LHF’s
Atlas of Services for Homeless People in London is a must-read for commissioners of services for homeless people and board members and senior executives within the agencies that deliver them.
The Atlas supplies a vital resource, giving a satellite view of the sector, where services are concentrated, which types of services are where and how that compares with the number of rough sleepers within each borough.
The third edition shows that the sector was still largely unaffected by cuts at the start of April 2011. One key measure is the number of bed spaces and supported units available to homeless people. This was higher in all areas than in 2008 when the Atlas was first published. Another is merger activity: surprisingly just a handful of agencies have joined forces since the last edition in 2009.
As cuts are implemented, we expect this edition of the Atlas to be a key benchmark against which the sector’s shape and fortunes can be measured.
League tables
For the first time, this edition of the Atlas includes league tables of service providers. In some areas, provision is concentrated in the hands of a few, for instance, St Mungo's runs almost a third of direct access provision, while 57% of floating support is run by the top four providers. By contrast, second stage accommodation is still spread amongst 87 providers, none of which has more than 8% of the total.
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The
Atlas is available to download as a PDF and many of the maps showing where services are concentrated and how that compares with the proportion of London's rough sleepers in each borough are available to view online.
Read more about the Atlas
Get a quick overview - view the online maps
View the full-length Atlas PDF