# The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards (England) Order 2005, Schedule 6: Performance indicators for homelessness


Indicator Number
Description of indicator
(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.
(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.
1
The average length of stay in–
(a) bed and breakfast accommodation and
(b) hostel accommodation
of households which include dependent children or a pregnant woman and where the applicant for accommodation is unintentionally homeless and in priority need for accommodation.
2
The 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.
3
The 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.
4
The 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.
5
The 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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/598/schedule/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-indicators-and-performance-standards-england-order-2005/schedule-6
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