Government Appoints Dame Louise Casey to Spearhead Homelessness Task Force

ROUGH SLEEPING - The Government has announced that Dame Louise Casey will spearhead a taskforce on rough sleeping during the pandemic. As part of this, a team of experts will advise councils on plans to support rough sleepers into long-term, safe accommodation once the lockdown is lifted.

Jon Sparkes, Chief Executive of Crisis, said: “We are delighted to see the government seize the opportunity to ensure those brought in from our streets as part of the emergency response to the pandemic are not forced to go back to them.

“We look forward to working closely with the taskforce to provide as many people as possible with a home of their own. The past few weeks has seen unprecedented action in an unprecedented situation - but has shown what can be achieved when the will is there.

“We agree with the government that people who are homeless don’t just deserve protection during a crisis – they should have ‘long-term, sustainable and safe accommodation’ when the pandemic is over.”

ABC Note: Dame Louise Casey DBE CB (born 29 March 1965) is a British government official working in social welfare. She was the deputy director of Shelter in 1992, head of the Rough Sleepers' Unit (RSU) in 1999, a director of the national Anti-Social Behaviour Unit (ASBU) in 2003, head of the Respect Task Force in 2005 and the UK's first Victims' Commissioner in March 2010. She became director general of Troubled Families on 1 November 2011. On the 27th February 2020 Boris Johnson appointed her as an adviser to help tackle homelessness, reporting directly to the Prime Minister. Courtesy of Wikipedia

Image: Dame Louise Casey.

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