“The Rough Sleeping Plan of Action will be the strategic framework used to deliver the Mayor’s commitment to set London on a course to end rough sleeping in London by 2030.

Rough sleeping is not the only form of homelessness, but it is a particularly dangerous form of homelessness. It is unacceptable that anyone should have to sleep rough in London.

When it comes to tackling rough sleeping, we need to set our expectations high and never tolerate the fact someone is forced to sleep rough. That’s why we’ve set an ambitious goal of ending rough sleeping by 2030.
Delivering this ambitious goal requires co-ordinating partners across London behind a shared understanding of the causes, challenges and solutions required to address them.

Ending rough sleeping in practice needs a set of functional measures that capture progress towards this goal. We propose these measures are based on the Ending Rough Sleeping Data Framework.

This framework tracks progress on preventing rough sleeping wherever possible. And where we cannot prevent it, providing the support needed to make it rare, brief and not repeated.

This is an approach that has been developed between the public and voluntary sectors and tested across the country.”

Overall, St Mungo’s agrees that this definition of the goal is the right way to frame and articulate ending rough sleeping in the Plan of Action. The Ending Rough Sleeping (ERS) Framework has already organised sector thinking around these principles and we have a reporting logic in place.

This publication includes our full submission and recommendations for the Rough Sleeping Plan of Action.