Rough sleeping in London (CHAIN reports)

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05 April 2024
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Summary

These reports present information about people seen rough sleeping by outreach teams in London. Information in the report is derived from the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN), a multi-agency database recording information about rough sleepers and the wider street population in London. CHAIN, which is commissioned and funded by the Greater London Authority (GLA) and managed by Homeless Link, represents the UK’s most detailed and comprehensive source of information about rough sleeping.

Services that record information on CHAIN include outreach teams, accommodation projects, day centres and specialist projects such as the GLA-commissioned No Second Night Out (NSNO). The system allows users to share information about work done with rough sleepers and about their needs, ensuring that they receive the most appropriate support and that efforts are not duplicated.

In these reports, people are counted as having been seen rough sleeping if they have been encountered by a commissioned outreach worker bedded down on the street, or in other open spaces or locations not designed for habitation, such as doorways, stairwells, parks or derelict buildings. The report does not include people from “hidden homeless” groups such as those “sofa surfing” or living in squats, unless they have also been seen bedded down in one of the settings outlined above.

Separate reports are produced for London as a whole and for individual boroughs, and these are published each quarter. There are also annual reports that contain aggregated information for all four quarters of the year.

As of January 2024, the PDF reports are accompanied by an OpenDocument Spreadsheet file providing the underlying data in an accessible aggregated tabular format. The file includes data at local authority level, and for London overall, including comparative data for previous periods. There is also an accompanying explanatory notes document, which provides important contextual information about the data.

A list of the organisations which have signed the CHAIN Data Protection Agreement and are able to access the CHAIN system is also available to download.

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  • For earlier reports please see the end of this page.

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CHAIN DPA current signatories 03-04-24.xlsx XLSX 05 April 2024 Not available
2023-24 Q3 Quarterly Reports ZIP 01 February 2024 Not available
CHAIN data tables explanatory notes.pdf PDF 11 January 2024 Not available
2023-24 Q2 Quarterly Reports.zip ZIP 02 November 2023 Not available
2023-24 Q1 Quarterly Reports.zip ZIP 02 August 2023 Not available
2022-23 Borough Annual Reports.zip ZIP 28 June 2023 Not available
Greater London bulletin 2022-23.pdf PDF 28 June 2023 Not available
2022-23 Quarterly Reports.zip ZIP 28 June 2023 Not available
Greater London full 2022-23.pdf PDF 28 June 2023 Not available
Quarterly and Annual Reports Process and Schedule 2023/24.pdf PDF 17 May 2023 Not available
2021-22 Quarterly Reports ZIP 01 August 2022 Not available
Greater London bulletin 2021-22 PDF 04 July 2022 Not available
Greater London full 2021-22 PDF 04 July 2022 Not available
2021-22 Borough Annual Reports ZIP 04 July 2022 Not available
Street to Home - Annual Reports and Bulletins ZIP 02 May 2022 Not available
Borough reports - quarterly and bimonthly 2010 ZIP 02 May 2022 Not available
Borough reports - quarterly and bimonthly 2011 ZIP 02 May 2022 Not available
Borough reports - quarterly and bimonthly 2014 ZIP 02 May 2022 Not available
Borough reports - quarterly and bimonthly 2012 ZIP 02 May 2022 Not available
Street to Home - Quarterly and Bimonthly ZIP 02 May 2022 Not available
Borough reports - quarterly and bimonthly 2013 ZIP 02 May 2022 Not available
2020-21 Quarterly Reports ZIP 30 July 2021 Not available
2020-21 Borough Annual Reports ZIP 30 July 2021 Not available
Greater London full 2020-21 PDF 30 July 2021 Not available
Greater London bulletin 2020-21 PDF 30 July 2021 Not available
2019-20 Borough Annual Reports ZIP 25 September 2020 Not available
Greater London full 2019-20 PDF 11 September 2020 Not available
Greater London bulletin 2019-20 PDF 11 September 2020 Not available
2019-20 Quarterly Reports ZIP 11 September 2020 Not available
2018-19 Quarterly Reports ZIP 27 December 2019 Not available
Greater London bulletin 2018-19 PDF 27 December 2019 Not available
2018-19 Borough Annual Reports ZIP 27 December 2019 Not available
Greater London full report 2018-19 PDF 27 December 2019 Not available
2015-16 Quarterly Reports ZIP 30 November 2018 Not available
Greater London full 2017-18 PDF 30 November 2018 Not available
2017-18 Borough Annual Reports ZIP 30 November 2018 Not available
Greater London full report 2014-15 PDF 30 November 2018 Not available
Greater London full report 2015-16 PDF 30 November 2018 Not available
2014-15 Borough Annual Reports ZIP 30 November 2018 Not available
Greater London bulletin 2015-16 PDF 30 November 2018 Not available
2016-17 Borough Annual Reports ZIP 30 November 2018 Not available
2014-15 Quarterly Reports ZIP 30 November 2018 Not available
2017-18 Quarterly Reports ZIP 30 November 2018 Not available
Greater London bulletin 2017-18 PDF 30 November 2018 Not available
Greater London bulletin 2014-15 PDF 30 November 2018 Not available
Greater London full report 2016-17 PDF 30 November 2018 Not available
2015-16 Borough Annual Reports ZIP 30 November 2018 Not available
2016-17 Quarterly Reports ZIP 30 November 2018 Not available
Greater London bulletin 2016-17 PDF 30 November 2018 Not available

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