Homelessness Trailblazer Project, 2017 to 2020
In September 2016 partners from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough got together to prepare a bid or Trailblazer funding from the government.
Our vision was that “by empowering all public facing staff to identify the risk of homelessness and work together to prevent it, we make homelessness the ‘unacceptable outcome”.
You can read the whole bid here, and these slides summarise it visually.
In December 2016 we discovered our bid had been successful and we had secured an additional £736,400 funding. The government funding lasted into 2018, after which the project got approval to continue for a further twelve months beyond its original funding. At December 2020 the project came to an end.
What was acheived?
You can find briefing notes over the years the project ran…
- Review of Year 1 of the project, here.
- Review of Year 2 of the project, here.
- Report for housing association partners at the end of Year 2 at RP report on outcomes.
- Briefing note for our voluntary sector partners here and for private landlords here.
- Making homelessness the unacceptable outcome: A homeless prevention overview for registered providers published July 2020
What happens next?
in 2020 the county council and local housing teams worked with a firm of consultants, called Arc4, to review homelessness services and work out how best to transform them in a number of ways. You can find the full report here.
After the Trailblazer project came to an end, partners expressed an interest in a new fund called Changing Futures. You can read more about the bid here.