Rochdale ABEN
Posted: 14 May 2020 1:36 pm.
We are pleased to announce that Stepping Stone Projects has been awarded 9 months' additional funding to continue our successful A Bed Every Night (ABEN) service in Rochdale until the end of March 2021.
As part of the contract extension, funding has been increased to provide another Supported Housing Worker which enables us to increase the capacity to 20 dispersed units all of which are let on a night by night basis.
The service was first commissioned in 2018 as part of Andy Burnham's much publicised pledge to offer A Bed Every Night for anyone street homeless / rough sleeping in Greater Manchester.
Due to Rochdale Council's increasing need to accommodate rough sleepers, the service had grown to our current contract which is for 8 units; though since the Covid-19 crisis we have been providing 14 units to help move customers away from shared accommodation.
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