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<p>We have taken huge steps working with local authorities and their partners to protect
rough sleepers during the pandemic. This work has not stopped, and through Everyone
In, by November we had supported around 33,000 people with nearly 10,000 in emergency
accommodation and over 23,000 already moved on into longer-term accommodation.</p><p>Given
the new variant of COVID-19, and the new national lockdown, we are redoubling our
efforts to ensure that people who sleep rough are kept as safe as possible and that
we do everything we can to protect the NHS. This is backed by £10 million to protect
rough sleepers and ensure their wider health needs are addressed.</p><p>We have written
to all local authorities, to ensure that even more rough sleepers are safely accommodated,
and to ask that this opportunity is actively used to make sure that all rough sleepers
are registered with a GP where they are not already and are factored into local area
vaccination plans, in line with JCVI prioritisation for COVID-19 vaccinations.</p>
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