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1 Members of the Task Force were: Scottish Executive,
DWP, Communities Scotland,
CoSLA, Association of Directors of
Social Work,
SFHA, Shelter Scotland, Scottish Council
for Single Homeless, The Big Issue in Scotland, Greater
Glasgow Health Board, University of Glasgow
2 Section 3, Homelessness etc (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp
10) - see Annex A for full text.
3 stage 1 debate, Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Bill, 18
December 2002 - Official record, col 16454
4
Homes for Scotland's People - a Scottish Housing Policy
Statement, published March 2005,
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/development/hfsphp-00.asp
5
Legislative Proposals on Homelessness - Homelessness
Task Force Initial Report published April 2000,
ISBN 0-7480-9355-9.
6 Good reason is defined in statutory guidance issued by
the Scottish Executive (
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/housing/homelessupdate.pdf)
7
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/society/htff-00.asp
8 latest report published April 2005,
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/04/05144752/47539
9 Priority need is defined at section 25 of the Housing
(Scotland) Act 1987, as amended.
10 section 20, Housing (Scotland) Act 1987
11
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/05/31133334/33366
12 A 2003 Crisis report estimates that on the costs
associated with resolving homelessness for one individual
can be £24,500 (
http://www.crisis.org.uk/pdf/HowManyHowMuch_full.pdf)
13
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/14844/1762
14
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/about/DD/H3/00019504/page1074550438.pdf
15
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/14844/9869
16
http://www.shcs.gov.uk
17
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/14844/9869
18
http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/webpages/cs_005841.hcsp
19
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/02/20703/52758
20
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00363-00.asp
21 Scottish Household Survey data for 2003 indicated
that 4% of adults now living in private households had
experienced homelessness but only 42% of these had received
help from their local authority.
22 Some local authorities assume that the proportion of
people securing accommodation will increase as improvements
are made and 'lost contact' cases decrease - see paragraph
71
23 For the latest figures see
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00399-00.asp
24 For full report see
http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/webpages/cs_009118.pdf
25 See paragraph 20 for explanation of section 5
referrals.
26 The Homeless Persons Interim Accommodation (Scotland)
Regulations 2002 - these allow for the provision of interim
accommodation where a housing support services assessment
has concluded that the household requires services which
cannot reasonably be provided within permanent
accommodation.
27 The
HTF recommended that intentionally
homeless households should be offered a more structured
package of accommodation and support, and that local
connection provisions should be suspended so that
applicants can apply to any local authority. These
provisions are not yet in force.
28 See section 5 for further detail.
29 The Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003
(Commencement No.1) Order 2003 (
SSI 2003 No 609)
30 Research findings at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/02/20703/52758
31 Currently those who are 'vulnerable as a result of'
old age, mental illness, personality disorder, learning
disability, physical disability, chronic ill health, having
suffered miscarriage/undergone abortion, having been
discharged from hospital/prison/armed forces are deemed to
be in priority need.
32
http://www.scotlland.gov.uk/consultations
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