The partners in a new Glasgow Alliance to tackle homelessness together with the council have been revealed.

The council has set up the Alliance to work jointly with groups it would previously buy services from.

The group, known as Everyone’s Home, will, subject to approval, be awarded the contract worth £187m over the next ten years, with a £23m budget in year one.

The seven third sector and independent sector partners will design, plan and deliver services including providing accommodation and support services to tackle rough sleeping and homelessness in the city, with the council.

The organisations are Aspire, Crossreach, Loretto Care, Mungo Foundation, Sacro, Salvation Army and YPeople.

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The council said it the first of its kind in the UK and will cover polices like Housing First, emergency and supported accommodation and street and community outreach work.

Mhairi Hunter, Glasgow’s Convener for Health & Social Care, said: “Glasgow’s Alliance to End Homelessness will be the first of its kind. It is an ambitious and innovative approach to partnership working and offers a significant opportunity to demonstrate that by pooling our resources, skills and considerable expertise, we can deliver our shared ambitions for the transformation of homelessness services.

“Currently homelessness services in the city are quite traditional and, although there is already partnership working, services can sometimes be provided in silos.

“The Alliance will provide a more inclusive and collaborative approach to service provision and decision-making.

“It will create more flexible and adaptable services which can react faster to changing demands to help prevent homelessness, end rough sleeping and help people integrate into communities when they move out of temporary accommodation and into their own permanent tenancies.”

The announcement comes as it was revealed that homelessness applications in Glasgow increased by almost 600 in just six months last year.

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And the 12 months from October 2018 to September 2019 almost 6000 applications were made to Glasgow City Council.

The official Scottish Government statistics also showed there were more people in temporary accommodation in Glasgow, with more than 2,200.

The 5873 homelessness applications to the council was the highest in Scotland accounting for 16% of all homeless applications in Scotland.

The new alliance will work towards a council target of reducing rough sleeping by 75% in Glasgow by the end of this year and eradicate it by the end of the decade,

Susanne Millar, Interim Chief Officer of Glasgow’s Health & Social Care Partnership, said: “The Alliance represents real cultural and whole-system change in the provision of homelessness services. It is about true collaboration - the decision-making will be shared and it will bring together considerable expertise to provide person-centred services. It will increase access to settled accommodation and support people to sustain their tenancies – reducing the cycle of repeat homelessness as well as addressing rough sleeping.”