The charity will compare the ethnic breakdown of the clients in its projects with that of the homeless population in the local area. It will also consider setting diversity targets for its services.
Rebecca Pritchard, director of services at Centrepoint, said: "We can talk to local authorities about the ethnic make-up of households under a certain age coming to them and we can benchmark our service profiles against these figures."
She said Centrepoint would publicise itself to ethnic groups that appeared to be missing out.
The project has been made possible by changes to government statistics, which started to record the age groups of homeless people in local areas from 1 April this year. The figures already record ethnicity.
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