Created 10 years ago, updated 2 months ago

These reports present information about people seen rough sleeping by outreach teams in London. Information in the report is derived from the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN), a multi-agency database recording information about rough sleepers and the wider street population in London. CHAIN, which is commissioned and funded by the Greater London Authority (GLA) and managed by Homeless Link, represents the UK’s most detailed and comprehensive source of information about rough sleeping.

Services that record information on CHAIN include outreach teams, accommodation projects, day centres and specialist projects such as the GLA-commissioned No Second Night Out (NSNO). The system allows users to share information about work done with rough sleepers and about their needs, ensuring that they receive the most appropriate support and that efforts are not duplicated.

In these reports, people are counted as having been seen rough sleeping if they have been encountered by a commissioned outreach worker bedded down on the street, or in other open spaces or locations not designed for habitation, such as doorways, stairwells, parks or derelict buildings. The report does not include people from “hidden homeless” groups such as those “sofa surfing” or living in squats, unless they have also been seen bedded down in one of the settings outlined above.

Separate reports are produced for London as a whole and for individual boroughs, and these are published each quarter. There are also annual reports that contain aggregated information for all four quarters of the year.

2023/24

*As of January 2024, the PDF reports are accompanied by an OpenDocument Spreadsheet file providing the underlying data in an accessible aggregated tabular format. The file includes data at local authority level, and for London overall, including comparative data for previous periods. There is also an accompanying explanatory notes document, which provides important contextual information about the data.

2022/23

2021/22

2020/21

2019/20

2018/19

2017/18

2016/17

2015/16

2014/15

Pre-2014/15

  • For earlier reports please see the end of this page.

CHAIN data tables explanatory notes

This dataset is one of the Greater London Authority's measures of Economic Fairness. Click here to find out more.
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01/10/2023
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31/12/2023
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01/07/2023
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30/09/2023
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01/04/2023
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30/06/2023
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01/04/2022
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31/03/2023
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01/04/2022
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31/03/2023
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01/04/2022
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31/03/2023
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01/04/2022
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31/03/2023
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01/01/2023
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31/03/2023
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01/10/2022
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31/12/2022
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01/07/2022
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30/09/2022
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01/04/2022
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30/06/2022
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31/03/2022
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