The authority has been working on a new strategy since the shock announcement at the end of last September that it would not be renewing the Salvation Army’s £95,000 a year contract to provide a rough sleeping early intervention programme.
Instead, it said it would be expanding its own rough sleepers service under a new homelessness strategy, with the help of an extra £260,000 of government funding over the next two years.
The council is already expanding its own in-house rough sleeping navigators team.
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