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<p>Table 1 below provides data on the number of prisoners that declared their accommodation
status as of ‘No Fixed Abode’ on their reception into custody, April 2016 – June 2018.
The system for collecting this information did not exist prior to 2015 and so data
for 2012 – 2015 is not available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 1</p></td><td
colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018
(Jan - Jun)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total prisoner receptions into custody (Basic
Custody Screening Tool)</p></td><td><p>105,782</p></td><td><p>103,225</p></td><td><p>50,198</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number
of homeless prisoners</p></td><td><p>24,942</p></td><td><p>26,700</p></td><td><p>13,755</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage</p></td><td><p>23.58%</p></td><td><p>25.87%</p></td><td><p>27.40%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><em>Notes</em></p><ol><li><p>The Basic Custody Screening Tool (BCS) is completed
on entry to custody for all prisoners. It therefore will include a mix of those received
into custody on remand and those sentenced from court. Using just the BCS, there is
no way to determine which of those received into custody on remand were released un-convicted,
therefore it is important to stress that this data covers prisoners, and can’t be
used to describe offenders, as some of those counted will ultimately not have been
found guilty of any offence.</p></li><li><p>The BCS Part 1 is completed by the prison
with no input from a Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) as they complete Part
2 of the BCS.</p></li><li><p>These questions from the BCS Part 1 are recorded as per
the prisoner’s answers and are not assessed.</p></li><li><p>The total number of prisoners
shown is for the number of fully completed BCS Part 1s for each year, based on the
Reception Date for each prisoner.</p></li><li><p>A proportion of prisoners will enter
custody multiple times each year and for this PQ all responses have been included
as a prisoner may provide different answers to these questions over time.</p><p> </p><p>
</p></li></ol><p>The Government published its Rough Sleeping Strategy in August 2018,
launching a £100 million initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate rough sleeping
across England. As part of this strategy, MoJ and Ministry of Housing, Communities
and Local Government (MHCLG), will be investing approximately £6m in a pilot scheme
to support ex-offenders secure suitable accommodation upon release; the pilots will
operate in HMPs Pentonville, Bristol and Leeds. Staff in both Community Rehabilitation
Companies and the National Probation Service continue to work together with local
authorities and other providers of accommodation with the aim of ensuring all offenders
under our supervision have accommodation, especially when they are released from prison.</p>
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