Homeless Prevention & Rough Sleeping Support Services HDG/2025/941

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is looking to procure housing related support services, to provide holistic homelessness prevention and support for households who are either at risk of becoming homeless or who are currently experiencing rough sleeping. This follows a full review of homelessness and rough sleeping carried out during 2024/2025, the findings of which fed into the production of a new Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy for 2025-2030.

The Strategy supports the themes of the Council’s Corporate Strategy 2024-2025, in helping to deliver a Healthier, Safer and Fairer city which includes; a focus on the prevention of homelessness and supporting people who are experiencing rough sleeping into accommodation that meets their needs, helping people to live independently at home supporting families at risk of or experiencing homelessness.

The 3 priorities of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy, will provide a focus for the procurement of the Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleeping Support services to be procured and will require a collaborative and an enhanced multi-agency approach from prospective tenderers;

1. Prevention: To raise the priority of homelessness prevention within the city. To embed robust pathways through early intervention to identify and prevent crisis situations
2. Innovative Intervention: To intervene to relieve homelessness and tackle rough sleeping quickly, by exploring new and innovative ways to make best use of the accommodation options we have available in the city and to ensure households have prompt access to appropriate accommodation.
3. Focus on Support: To ensure those most vulnerable to homelessness, including single people, Young People (including care leavers), Armed Forces Veterans and families with children, have the right level of support tailored to their needs within appropriate and secure accommodation.

Description of the procurement;
Stoke-on-Trent City Council will be looking for a suitable provider or a consortium of providers to deliver against three specific lots which will include the following categories:
LOT 1: Homelessness Prevention & Rough Sleeping Pathway
LOT 2: Young People & Teenage Parents – Housing Related Support
LOT 3: Homeless Families - Housing Related Support

This Project will be undertaken in accordance with regulations stated under the Procurement Act 2023 and will be classed as being undertaken as a light touch Contract and will be for a maximum term of 3 Years.