Coronavirus: Funding for homeless scheme will not be extended

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Image caption Thousands of other folk had been supported below the “Everyone In” blueprint

The executive will now not lengthen funding to relief tough sleepers in England preserve off the streets amid the coronavirus pandemic, it has confirmed.

Councils got £3.2m in March topresent emergency refuge for homeless other folk, with many housed in hotels.

Aleaked file viewed by the Manchester Evening News,printed the manager has “drawn a line'” below the blueprint.

Nonetheless the manager said ministers comprise determined now not to allocate any extra funding to the programme.

As yet every other, councils had been given £3.2bn to relief with the extra fees of the pandemic, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said.

“Any recommendation that the manager is reneging on the dedication situation out on the starting up place of this national emergency is completely tainted,” the spokesperson added.

“We now had been scamper councils must continue to produce safe accommodation for these that need it.

“The most neatly-liked figures level to larger than 90% of tough sleepers identified to councils first and indispensable of this crisis comprise now been made provides of safe accommodation below the “Everyone In” blueprint. “

Labour chief Keir Starmer said it modified into “simply tainted to send homeless other folk again onto the streets,” together with “the coronavirus crisis is unparalleled from over”.

“Appropriate now they need emergency enhance. Nonetheless after this crisis we can now not overlook we all however ended tough napping in a single day. We are in a position to discontinuance it for upright,” he said.

Homeless charity Disaster described the resolution as “completely unacceptable.”

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