The Office for Statistics Regulation wrote to Stephanie Howarth about Homelessness accommodation provision and rough sleeping management information

3 August 2023 · Mark Pont, Office for Statistics Regulation

The letter is dated 3 August 2023. The Office for Statistics Regulation published it as Mark Pont to Stephanie Howarth: Homelessness accommodation provision and rough sleeping management information; it links to 5 official records. Below are 4 passages from the letter in the regulator's own words.

What the Office for Statistics Regulation wrote

“To help signal the significant public value of these data and support their further development, our view is that these data should in future be published as official statistics.”

“We welcome the team’s openness in recently publishing its plans for the further development of these data, including to publish more-detailed data at local authority level.”

“Some helpful key quality guidance points are published alongside the data to support their appropriate interpretation and us These include, for example, advice that the latest month’s data are provisional, and that users should avoid putting too much emphasis on data for an individual month, or when making comparisons with previous months.”

“We welcome that the team is further developing the monthly bulletin by publishing a greater range of the data already collected – including, for example, new data on the main reasons reported for homelessness and types of temporary accommodation provided from July 2023, and additional data at local authority level later in 2023.”

From Mark Pont, Office for Statistics Regulation, letter of 3 August 2023. Read the full letter.

Records the letter links to

• Homelessness accommodation provision and rough sleeping monthly management information
• Ending homelessness in Wales: a high-level action plan 2021 to 2026
• Homelessness statistics (gov.wales)
• National rough sleeper count
• Ending Homelessness outcomes framework

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