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Homelessness

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many capital grants her Department has awarded under the Places of Change Programme. (219868)

Capital grants from the £80 million Places of Change Programme have been allocated to 80 projects in 54 local authority areas across England.

Through this programme hostels and homelessness services will cease to be places of last resort, but instead become centres of excellence and choice which positively changes lives. They will provide good services so that people can access education, training and employment and move on to independent living in a settled home.

The Places of Change Programme builds upon the success of the £90 million Hostels Capital Improvement Programme which funded 178 projects in 62 local authority areas.