Prevention of homelessness duties: consultation analysis

This report provides an analysis of responses to the joint Scottish Government/ COSLA consultation on proposed new prevention of homelessness duties, which ran from 17 December 2021 to 8 April 2022.


Appendix A: Respondent classification

Given the range of sectors represented by respondents, analysts created a broad level of classification for analysis purposes. Respondents were assigned to one of the categories below based on the nature of their organisation.

Table 1: Sectoral classification
Sector Number of responses % of all responses
Individuals 20 18%
Organisations: 93 82%

- Local authority

29 26%

- Health and social care

22 19%

- Third sector:

20 18%
Housing 13 12%
Domestic abuse 2 2%
Other 5 4%

- Housing

11 10%

- Children and young people

3 3%

- Justice

2 2%

- Other

6 5%

Contact

Email: Homelessness_External_Mail@gov.scot

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