In these two webinars, we hear from Brighton and Hove City Council about how they tailored the London ‘find-and-treat’ model to suit their population and how their established partnerships with other agencies helped them better respond to COVID-19 and will help them through the coming winter.

And in the second webinar, we hear from Slough Borough Council, Slough CVS, and East Berkshire CCG about how they supported homeless people in Slough during COVID, as well as a discussion on planning for adverse weather conditions and flu vaccinations across the South East region.

These webinars have been planned by NHS England and Improvement with Public Health England and the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) colleagues to outline the contribution that health can make to support homeless people who are multiply disadvantaged across the South East.

Since the end of March 2020 in response to the pandemic, housing colleagues across the South East have arranged accommodation for street homeless and rough sleepers, bringing forward a target for ‘everyone in’ which was proposed to have been reached by 2027. This presents an opportunity for this client group to register with a GP and/or maintain a relationship with care services, and to receive a full physical and mental health needs assessment in order to access relevant services. MHCLG has recently written to council chiefs asking them to plan for the ‘moving on’ stage to support transition from contingent to permanent accommodation. Given the ongoing pandemic and complex needs of this vulnerable group, a health-led response to transition is expected.

The audience for this webinar is multi-agency and we hope it will allow colleagues across the South East to connect better in their systems.

To view the slide deck from the first webinar, please download it here.

To review the notes from the Questions and Answers session, along with the next steps from the first webinar, please download our summary document here.

To view the slide deck from the second webinar, please download it here.

You can watch the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping webinar on Brighton and Hove’s response to the COVID pandemic here:

You can watch the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping webinar on Slough’s response to the COVID pandemic, and the South East adverse weather and flu vaccination planning in the context of COVID here: