The cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy, launched today, includes plans to create specialist personal advisers to provide intensive support to care leavers at greatest risk of homelessness.
Specialist personal advisers will be established in the 47 councils in England with the highest rates of rough sleeping among care leavers thanks to a grant of £3.2m.
The strategy highlights that around 10 per cent of rough sleepers in London were once in local authority care.
Since April, local authorities have been required to provide personal adviser support to care leavers up to the age of 25 should they need it, and publish information about the support on offer to this group.
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