Reference: D50506
Decision Maker: Director of Public Health
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
• In 2019 Public Health England announced
a grant funding opportunity, Rough Sleeping Grant: Testing
Community Based Models of Access to Health Services. Applications
were invited from Local Authority areas to test approaches to
addressing the needs of people who are rough sleeping or have been
rough sleeping and who experience co-occurring conditions of
substance use and mental health issues, supporting them into health
and wider services and away from the streets.
• Leeds City Council worked with a range of partners to
develop a project to address this need and the application was one
of only six projects nationally to be successful. A grant of
£251,500 has been awarded by Public Health England.
• The project is to establish and test a Trauma Informed
Navigator Model and this report recommends that the grant is
provided to Humankind (lead provider of the Forward Leeds drug and
alcohol service) to establish and deliver the model as detailed in
the application to Public Health England.
Wards Affected: (All Wards);
Contact: Ian Street, Commissioning and Contracts Officer Email: ian.street@leeds.gov.uk.
Publication date: 28/01/2020
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