Statutory Homelessness Flows, England, 2019-2023: Secure Access

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<div>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Homelessness Case Level Information Collection</span> (H-CLIC) project aims to create a linked dataset of information about homelessness in England, to improve understanding of its causes and impacts. It is the result of a collaboration between the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). </div>
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<div>The project will allow decision-makers to develop more effective policies to reduce homelessness and improve the lives of people across the country. Specifically, the H-CLIC project will involve linking data from across local authorities in England, and to other administrative datasets. The H-CLIC data records local authorities' actions under the 2017 Homelessness Reduction Act, which significantly reformed England's homelessness legislation by placing duties on local authorities to intervene at earlier stages to prevent and reduce homelessness.</div>
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<div>The H-CLIC project has three elements, some of which will be phased:</div>
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<li>The first aims to use the linked H-CLIC data from across local authorities to develop a better understanding of whether homelessness is resolved in the long term, particularly across local authority boundaries. This will help to establish what works to prevent homelessness, and which elements of the Homelessness Reduction Act are most effective.</li>
<li>The second aims to match together H-CLIC data and the Rough Sleeping Evaluation Questionnaire to identify how effectively interventions have prevented homelessness and improved other outcomes in the longer term. DLUHC already have rough sleeping evaluations in progress that would benefit from this work.</li>
<li>Finally, the third element aims to match the H-CLIC data to data gathered from other government departments/health agencies to determine the wider circumstances and outcomes of people who have experienced homelessness, such as educational outcomes, employment, benefits and health. This will enable us to identify the wider impacts and longer-term outcomes, and estimate the costs of homelessness.</li>
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<p>The DLUHC intends to use the data to assess the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act, for example by identifying the factors associated with better or worse outcomes for households at risk of homelessness and to understand more about the factors that drive homelessness and how best to address them.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the project will provide central government departments, local public services and delivery partners with valuable information about the cycle of homelessness and its impact on the lives of those it affects, as well as the impact and cost-benefit of interventions and services targeted at reducing homelessness. The information should be useful to inform future service design and reform and investment decisions.</p>
<p>Further information, including reports and tables, may be found on the Gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">Homelessness Statistics Collection</a> webpage.<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">Latest edition information<br></span>For the third edition (November 2025), a data file for 2022-2023 has been added to the study. </p>

<div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">无家可归者个案信息收集</span>（Homelessness Case Level Information Collection，简称H-CLIC）项目旨在构建英格兰地区无家可归问题关联数据集，以深化对该问题成因与影响的认知。本项目由英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics，简称ONS）与英国住房、社区与地方振兴部（Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities，简称DLUHC）合作完成。</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>本项目将助力决策者制定更高效的政策，以减少无家可归现象并改善全国民众的生活质量。具体而言，H-CLIC项目将整合英格兰各地方当局的相关数据，并与其他行政数据集进行关联。H-CLIC数据集记录了各地方当局依据2017年《无家可归者救济法案》（Homelessness Reduction Act）所开展的工作——该法案对英格兰无家可归相关立法进行了重大改革，要求地方当局更早介入，以预防和缓解无家可归问题。</div></div><div>H-CLIC项目包含三个工作模块，部分模块将分阶段推进：</div><ul><li>首个模块旨在通过整合各地方当局的关联H-CLIC数据，深入研判无家可归问题是否得到长期解决，尤其是跨地方当局边界的情况。这将有助于明确哪些干预措施可有效预防无家可归，以及《无家可归者救济法案》中的哪些条款成效最为显著。</li><li>第二个模块旨在将H-CLIC数据集与《露宿者评估问卷》（Rough Sleeping Evaluation Questionnaire）进行匹配，以识别相关干预措施在长期内预防无家可归及改善其他福祉成果的有效性。目前DLUHC正在推进的露宿者评估工作将可从本项目中获益。</li><li>最后一个模块旨在将H-CLIC数据集与其他政府部门、卫生机构采集的数据进行关联，以明确无家可归经历者的整体处境与长期结局，例如教育成果、就业状况、福利申领情况与健康水平。通过该模块，我们可识别无家可归问题带来的广泛影响与长期结局，并估算无家可归的社会成本。</li></ul><p>DLUHC计划利用本数据集评估《无家可归者救济法案》的落实情况，例如识别与无家可归风险家庭的优劣结局相关的影响因素，同时进一步厘清推动无家可归问题产生的各类动因，以及最优的应对方案。</p><p>最终，本项目将为中央政府部门、地方公共服务机构及合作执行方提供关于无家可归循环及其对受影响群体生活影响的宝贵信息，同时也将阐明针对无家可归问题的干预措施与服务的实施效果与成本效益。相关信息可为未来的服务设计、改革及投资决策提供参考依据。</p><p>更多相关信息（包括报告与表格）可访问Gov.uk官网的<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">《无家可归统计数据汇编》</a>网页。<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">最新版本信息<br></span>截至2025年11月发布的第三版数据集，已新增2022-2023年度的数据文件。&nbsp;</p>