Scottish Government

(58) A monitoring group should be set up to take forward the action programme. The group should play particular (but not exclusive) attention to movement in the number of households applying under the homelessness legislation; the number of households assessed as homeless; the proportion of homeless households placed directly into permanent accommodation; the number of households experiencing repeat homelessness; the number of homeless households - particularly families with children - in Bed & Breakfast; time spent in Bed & Breakfast; time taken by local authority to deal with cases, and customer satisfaction indices.

RAG status: Green

Delivery contact: HMG and Scottish Executive.

Progress to date:

• Monitoring Group established in 2002.
• First annual report published in January 2004; second annual report published April 2005.
• Homelessness Monitoring Group subgroups on 2012 planning, awareness raising and good practice and intentionality established Spring 2005.

Action required & by whom:

• Monitoring Group and subgroup members to fulfil remits.
• Scottish Executive to provide secretariat support.

Key milestones:

• First annual report published January 2004.
• Second annual report published April 2005.