East Sussex Housing Strategy mobilisation plan- Preventing Homelessness and Ending Rough Sleeping
Strategic Action | Deliverables / Milestones | Lead |
Develop and implement an approach for ongoing lived experience involvement. | Working with the East Sussex Homelessness Forum, implement an approach for ongoing lived experience involvement in the mobilisation of the strategy and service design. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Adopt a new Care Leavers Protocol | Co-design a new protocol between housing and children’s services to improve access to accommodation for care leavers. | Young Person’s Housing and Accommodation Manager |
Implement a new model for homelessness prevention | Develop an ongoing model for homelessness prevention, building on the existing housing-related floating support services, wellbeing programme, employability support and ensuring greater integration with the wider system. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Temporary Accommodation
| Adopt a shared temporary accommodation policy for East Sussex, setting out standards and compliance arrangements, procurement and access to services. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Intentionally Homeless Families | Joint working between housing and children’s services to increase prevention support for families likely to be found intentionally homeless, provide cost effective temporary accommodation and improve move on support. | Young Person’s Housing and Accommodation Manager |
Crisis and Resilience Fund | Work with the financial inclusion team to co-produce a local approach to the Crisis and Resilience Fund, which will incorporate Household Support Fund and Discretionary Housing Payments. | Head of Partnerships |
Duty to Prevent Protocols | Update existing protocols with partner services, to include additional measures to prevent homelessness, beginning with adult social care. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Rough Sleeper Services | Design and implement an ongoing programme of activity supporting rough sleepers, using funding from the Rough Sleeper Prevention and Recovery Programme. | Head of Housing, Hastings Borough Council |
Housing First | Implement recommendations from an earlier review of Housing First services against the national fidelity framework. | Rough Sleeper Prevention and Recovery Programme Co-Ordinator |
Working together to reduce health inequalities | ||
Develop a new Hospital Discharge Protocol – Physical Health Services | Co-produce a new protocol with health and care partners to support people to be discharged from hospital from physical health settings as quickly and safely as possible. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Older People’s Services | To work with adult social care to identify and develop the housing needs and outcomes as part of a broader review of older people’s services to be carried out in 2026/27. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Supported Housing Regulations | Prepare for the implementation of the new regulations, including developing a new supported housing strategy. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Multiple Compound Needs and Rough Sleeping | Develop an ongoing multi-disciplinary team supporting people with a history of rough sleeping with multiple compound needs. Implement the recommendations from the earlier multiple compound needs assessment, including expanding multi-disciplinary working practice, implementing team around the person and trauma informed practice. | Head of Housing, Hastings Borough Council / Consultant in Public Health |
Integrated Community Teams and Mental Health Neighbourhood Teams | To scope key housing specialisms to be aligned with the new community-based models in health and care. | Heads of Housing |
Adult Social Care | Leading the implementation of the suitable home priority within the Adult Social Care Strategy, embedding the Adult Social Care Prevention Strategy and supporting recommendations from the older person’s housing review. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Deliver the Homes We Need | ||
Empty Homes Strategy | Develop a county-wide strategy to bring long-term empty properties back into use. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead
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Communications | Developing a shared communications campaign, highlighting the importance of increasing housing supply to address homelessness and improve infrastructure. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Public Sector Assets – Pilot Projects | Mobilising the first 2 pilot projects in Hastings and Rother from the pipeline of assets identified with the SPACES programme. | SPACES Programme Lead |
Land Assembly | Assembling development sites to maximise grant funding opportunities. | Chair of the Development and Enablement Group |
Housing and Planning | Supporting the local plan-making process in each local authority. Working collaboratively with planning colleagues to identify and address barriers to bringing forward consented sites. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Community Led Housing | Continue to support community-led housing initiatives, including access to advice and funding opportunities. | Heads of Housing |
Developers Sussex | Working closely with Developers Sussex to support collaboration between housing, planning and housing developers. | Chair of Developers Sussex |
Improving Housing Management and Standards | ||
Regulatory Judgements | Sharing learning and practice from regulatory judgements and including key areas of work in the partnership action plan. | Chair of the Housing Management and Standards Group |
Competency and Conduct requirements | Delivering shared training opportunities to support housing providers to meet the new competency and conduct requirements. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Hoarding | Developing a partnership approach to hoarding, building on national examples of good practice, including links to safeguarding and health and care partners. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Landlord functions – protecting outcomes for tenants during devolution and local government re-organisation | Sustaining and improving the outcomes for tenants during devolution and local government re-organisation. |
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Stock Condition Survey | Developing a partnership approach to validating stock condition information, as recommended by the Regulator of Social Housing. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Tenant Voice | Review local trends in tenant engagement and feedback and opportunities to develop the partnership’s tenant voice charter. Strengthening engagement across existing tenant engagement approaches in stock-holding authorities. Strengthening engagement with Registered Provider partners. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Reformed Decent Homes Standard for Social and Privately Rented Homes | Develop a shared action plan to meet the requirements of the emerging Reformed Decent Homes Standard for Social and Privately Rented Homes, which the government consulted on in autumn 2025. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Tackling Climate Change | ||
East Sussex Retrofit Strategy | Adopt a strategy to support home upgrades across East Sussex. The strategy includes funding and finance, practical delivery, communications and skills. | Partnership and Programme Development Manager (Housing Retrofit) |
Retrofit Skills Plan | Collaborate with partners in the employability and skills team, local businesses and education providers to implement phase 2 of the Retrofit Skills Plan. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Warm Homes Local Grant | Support the delivery of the Warms Homes Local Grant Programme, providing funding for home upgrades. | Specialist Advisor – Sustainability and Net Zero |
Fuel Poverty | Continue to collaborate with Public Health to deliver a county-wide co-ordination role to improve access to funding and advice for households at risk of fuel poverty. | Health Improvement Principal |
Private Rented Homes | ||
Renters Rights Bill | Supporting the implementation of the Renters Rights Bill, including access to training and engagement with landlords. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Landlord Engagement | To host at least 2 landlord engagement events throughout the year, to share legislative and policy updates. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Landlord incentives | To continue to review and update the package of landlord incentives local authorities offer to improve access to the private rented sector. | East Sussex Housing Partnership Lead |
Private Sector Leasing | Develop options for a shared leasing model for privately rented accommodation. | Head of Homelessness and Housing Options |