Housing Support Programme Strategy for Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys

The Mid and West Wales region is made up of the four counties of Carmarthenshire Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys. The HSG is administered by each county for their local needs but look to take advantage of opportunities for joint-commissioning across all, or part of the region. To this end, it is essential to have regional intelligence that builds on the local housing support needs identified in each county.The creation of the HSG is an opportunity to produce a rationalised and coherent planning mechanism for the whole housing system as it relates to preventing homelessness and providing the support necessary to ensure people are appropriately housed. This means that there will be a single strategy (called the Housing Support Programme Strategy), which incorporates the local authority’s statutory duty to produce a homelessness strategy and the strategic planning requirements for the HSG. Therefore the single strategy for homelessness prevention and support, and the mechanisms to develop the strategy should be used to inform the entirety of an authority’s approach.