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<p>According to the 2018/2019 report produced by the Combined Homelessness and Information
Network (CHAIN), which is publicly available online and can be accessed by anyone,
32 people were seen sleeping rough in Havering across the course of that year. CHAIN
is a multi-agency database recording information about rough sleepers and the wider
street population in London.</p><p>The Rough Sleeping Support Service, which was first
announced in August 2018 as part of the Government’s Rough Sleeping Strategy, was
introduced to help non-UK nationals sleeping rough resolve their immigration cases
and access the support that they need. It does not undertake any enforcement action.
It has an administrative role, conducting status checks, identifying priority cases
and ensuring that we can help those who require evidence of their immigration status
or assistance in leaving the UK.</p><p>The Home Office may take action on a case-by-case
basis where individuals have exhausted all other avenues and are unwilling to leave
the UK voluntarily. This is in line with existing immigration law.</p><p>Removals
of non-UK rough sleepers cannot be disaggregated in the published statistics on the
removal of those without lawful status. It is also not possible to directly attribute
removals to interaction with the RSSS because a range of factors will have affected
how decisions were reached in these cases. A person’s removal from the UK is determined
by their immigration <br>status and circumstances, including unwillingness to depart
voluntarily, not by contact with the RSSS.</p>
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