1. How many households across your council area have approached the council for advice and support to prevent them becoming homelessness in the past five years.
If possible, please provide data broken down by year by calendar year. If you could break it down from 2018-2022 and then any data you have so far this year
• 01/01/2023 – 25/10/23: 1024
• 01/01/2022 – 31/12/2022: 1043
• 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2021: 566
Before 01/01/2021 we did not record the number of households who approached for assistance, we only recorded the number of households who were owed a statutory duty. This information is available via Homelessness statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)