{"id":39297,"date":"2020-01-28T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=39297"},"modified":"2020-01-28T17:11:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:11:57","slug":"city-counts-fewest-rough-sleepers-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2020\/01\/28\/city-counts-fewest-rough-sleepers-in-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"City counts fewest rough sleepers in six years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joint outreach teams have contributed to fall in nightly tally, says councillor\u00a0 <\/h4>\n\n\n<p>THE number of rough sleepers\u00a0in Cardiff\u00a0was\u00a0at a\u00a0six-year-low\u00a0last week, according to\u00a0a cabinet member for housing and communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Outreach teams\u00a0recorded just 34 rough sleepers on January 23,\u00a0Councillor Lynda Thorne\u00a0tweeted.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am enormously proud that the work that the outreach and multidisciplinary team do makes a real difference,\u201d Coun Thorne said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the best it\u2019s been in six years.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rough sleeping in Cardiff  down to 34, as of today 23 Jan 20 the lowest for 6 years. Huge congratulations to the outreach &amp; multi-disciplinary teams for all their efforts in providing the support to those sleeping rough in the city.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/roughsleepers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#roughsleepers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/homelesscount2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#homelesscount2020<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M6kJSUBhcP\">pic.twitter.com\/M6kJSUBhcP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lynda Thorne (@LyndaT48) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LyndaT48\/status\/1220770354274148353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>She cited&nbsp;new mental health specialists and multidisciplinary teams,&nbsp;put in place after securing a grant from the Welsh government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The count takes place every night across the whole city and includes people who are sleeping rough, regardless of nationality\u00a0or immigration status, but not people staying in emergency accommodation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0charity\u00a0Huggard, which houses people who are sleeping rough,\u00a0said these figures\u00a0tend to fluctuate.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Spokesperson Lee O\u2019Shea said:\u00a0\u201cIt all depends on the weather and circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He said that on busy nights the centre might house up to 125 people, 90 on a quiet night \u2013 but that these are not all rough sleepers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>At this time last year,&nbsp;charity The&nbsp;Wallich&nbsp;were&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thewallich.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Cardiff_Q1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">28 people per day<\/a>&nbsp;with rough&nbsp;sleepers\u2019&nbsp;intervention&nbsp;teams.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>But&nbsp;Mr O\u2019Shea&nbsp;said it had been a busy time for Huggard. \u201cIt\u2019s probably the busiest I\u2019ve ever known the centre and I\u2019ve&nbsp;been here 13 years.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He listed Universal Credit, young people becoming homeless and mental health provision as key issues that have&nbsp;caused&nbsp;a high&nbsp;overall&nbsp;number of homeless people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Welsh government is due to publish its annual report, the&nbsp;National Rough Sleeper Count,&nbsp;next Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Cardiff Council are also\u00a0starting a review of its services for single homeless and vulnerable people\u00a0and is expecting to make more announcements.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Cardiff Council have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint outreach teams have contributed to fall in nightly tally, says councillor\u00a0 THE number of rough sleepers\u00a0in Cardiff\u00a0was\u00a0at a\u00a0six-year-low\u00a0last week, according to\u00a0a cabinet member for housing and communities.\u00a0 Outreach teams\u00a0recorded just 34 rough sleepers on January 23,\u00a0Councillor Lynda Thorne\u00a0tweeted.\u00a0 \u201cI am enormously proud that the work that the outreach and multidisciplinary team do makes a real difference,\u201d Coun Thorne said.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s the best it\u2019s been in six years.\u201d&nbsp; She cited&nbsp;new mental health specialists and multidisciplinary teams,&nbsp;put in place after securing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":22991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-39297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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