SOL - Youth Hub

SYH pilot St. Basil's have improved the delivery of services to young people threatened with homelessness, leading on early intervention to avoid / deal with crisis situations and prevent homelessness. For those young people that need more intensive support close joint working arrangements are in place with Solihull Community Housing (SCH) and Children's Services & Skills (CSS) to ensure the most appropriate response.

From 1st April 2018 the introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA) placed new duties on Council's to: i. Assess all applicants who are homeless or threatened with homelessness, agreeing, actioning and regularly reviewing Personalised Housing Plans with applicants. ii. Satisfy the prevention duty by taking reasonable steps to help applicants who are threatened with homelessness to remain in their homes or to move. iii. Satisfy the relief duty by taking reasonable steps to help homeless applicants secure accommodation.