Rough Sleeping Prevention and Recovery Grant 2025 to 2026: updated allocations

In December 2024, the government announced the Rough Sleeping Prevention and Recovery Grant providing £185.6 million of funding to local authorities across England to support people experiencing rough sleeping. This provides funding for services such as Housing First, accommodation, outreach staff alongside support for prison leavers and specialist services such as mental health and immigration and employment support.

The government recognises that homelessness and rough sleeping numbers continue to remain high. To tackle the continued pressures local authorities are facing, the government has provided an additional £69.9 million through the Rough Sleeping Prevention and Recovery Grant, to enable local and strategic authorities to support the most vulnerable in society.

This funding has been provided to local authorities through the existing programme to deliver a range of services for those experiencing single homelessness and rough sleeping. It also supports strategic authorities with their integrated efforts, working with local authorities, to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping across their regions.

This funding is designed to allow local authorities to provide services that are based on local need. Services provided through this funding could include, but are not limited to, preventative services, specialist physical and mental health support, specialist adult social care services, plus place-based responses to support multi-agency approaches to rough sleeping. This additional £69.9 million top-up to the grant has been made available to areas facing the most significant pressures and has been allocated across 62 local authorities, 12 strategic authorities and the five London sub-regions.

The funding table attached represents the total allocation per authority to date for the RSPARG grant, which now totals £255.5 million. This forms part of the £1 billion investment in homelessness and rough sleeping services this year.