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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-indicators-and-performance-standards-england-order-2005/schedule-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/598",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards (England) Order 2005",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Performance indicators for homelessness",
  "text": "Indicator Number\nDescription of indicator\n(a) Under section 193 of the Housing Act 1996 the authority has a duty to secure accommodation for persons with a priority need who are not homeless intentionally.\n(b) Persons in respect of whom the authority accepts that there is a duty to provide accommodation in accordance with section 193 of the Housing Act 1996.\n1\nThe average length of stay in–\n(a) bed and breakfast accommodation and\n(b) hostel accommodation\nof households which include dependent children or a pregnant woman and where the applicant for accommodation is unintentionally homeless and in priority need for accommodation.\n2\nThe number of people, on a single night within the authority’s area, sleeping or bedding down in the open air, or in buildings or other places not designed for habitation.\n3\nThe percentage increase or decrease, from the previous financial year, in the number of households, which include dependent children or pregnant women, placed in temporary accommodation.\n4\nThe number of households in the financial year that considered themselves homeless, who approached the authority’s housing advice service and for whom housing advice casework intervention resolved their situation.\n5\nThe proportion of those households accepted as homeless in the financial year, who had been previously been accepted as homeless by the same authority within the last two years.",
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      "text": "(a) Under section 193 of the Housing Act 1996 the authority has a duty to secure accommodation for persons with a priority need who are not homeless intentionally."
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      "text": "(b) Persons in respect of whom the authority accepts that there is a duty to provide accommodation in accordance with section 193 of the Housing Act 1996."
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