Community · 27 February 2020
The number of people sleeping rough on the streets of Liverpool has remained broadly stable, new figures show. Official, independently verified Government figures out this morning (27 Feb) show 17 people were sleeping on city centre streets on November 13, 2019 – the night of the annual rough sleeper count. The count acts as a
Video · 14 December 2019
Every year in Liverpool, the city council and partners prevent thousands of people from becoming homeless. The council’s commissioned outreach team is out on the streets every day and night making contact with people, assessing them and encouraging them in to services, but this can be a long process, often because of mental health or
Podcast · 17 November 2019
Rough sleeping is the most visible form of homelessness, but not all rough sleepers are homeless – some do have somewhere to stay, but choose to sleep on the streets to beg, or because they become attached to the lifestyle. Conversely, there are homeless people we don’t see who are living in temporary accommodation –
Factfile · 21 October 2019
The chances are that you define homelessness as the number of rough sleepers you see on the street. The true picture is far more complex, because every year in Liverpool, the city council and partners prevent thousands of people from becoming homeless. Homelessness is everyone’s issue and not something that can be tackled in isolation.
Community · 5 October 2019
Kobalt and the Choir with No Name (CWNN) – a UK charity running choirs for homeless and marginalised people – are releasing a very special version of ‘This Is Me’, to coincide with World Homeless Day on 10 October 2019. The Choir with No Name currently run choirs in four cities in England, including Liverpool,
Uncategorized · 3 July 2018
LIVERPOOL City Council has put together a team to offer extra help to reduce street begging and address associated anti-social behaviour in the city centre.
