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Join the London call to action on Women's Rough Sleeping

Join the London call to action on Women's Rough Sleeping

Join the London call to action on Women's Rough Sleeping

Friday, November 22, 2024

The Women’s Rough Sleeping Census takes place each year to build evidence of the scale of need, understand experiences, and identify what will be effective for women.

Following the third annual women’s rough sleeping census across London in 2024, the census has now heard the voices and experiences of almost 1,000 women, telling us how, when and where they rough sleep. This comprehensive body of data confirms that:

  • Women often sleep rough in ways that are not seen or validated by current methods.
  • The number of women sleeping rough in London is often significantly higher than previously evidenced.

This means that current commissioning decisions significantly under-resources services for women.

The Women's Rough Sleeping Census team have written a manifesto for change, proposing five key steps for tackling women’s rough sleeping in the Mayor’s new Rough Sleeping Plan of Action for London.

You can support the asks of the manifesto as follows’

Three suggestions to support the asks of the manifesto are as follows:

  1. Please consider stating your support for/including the link to the manifesto in your own organisation's submission to the call for evidence.
  2. Please show your support for the manifesto by emailing it, alongside a statement of support from your own organisation, to RoughSleepingCommissioning@london.gov.uk before the deadline of the 3rd December 2024. You can also share the manifesto via social media.
  3. If your organisation is not able to submit a response, but would like to be quoted in or to provide any evidence to the Women’s Rough Sleeping Census submission to e.greenhalgh@solacewomensaid.org.

 

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