young people's rough sleeping census pilot survey

london’s young people’s rough sleeping census pilot will take place between 1^st – 7^th July 2024

Welcome to the resource hub for the Young People’s Rough Sleeping Census Pilot 2024. If you’re from an outreach team or service working in one of our three pilot boroughs – Bromley, Camden or Lambeth – you can help make our pilot a success by using the materials and guidance found here to help us reach as many young people as possible during census week.

What is the Young People’s Rough Sleeping Census Pilot?

Following the success of the Women’s Rough Sleeping Census, Depaul UK is piloting a Young People’s Rough Sleeping Census across three London boroughs – Lambeth, Camden and Bromley.

From 1^st – 7^th July, we’re working with local outreach teams and services to reach as many young people (18-25) with recent experience of rough sleeping as possible with an online census survey. This will help us gain more accurate data about young people’s experiences of rough sleeping, learn from young people who are often underrepresented in research, and inform our plans for a wider, pan-London census, which we’re hoping to undertake next year. The overall aim of the census is to increase our collective understanding of young people’s experiences, so that we can improve the support that is available to them.

How can you help?

Does your service work with young people (18-25) who may have slept rough in the last three months?

If so, you can help by completing our online survey with eligible young people during census week.

Full guidance for how the survey should be administered is available here and summarised in the video at the bottom of this page. Please DO NOT carry out the survey with young people until you have familiarised yourself with the guidance.

Click here for the young people’s census survey

Download a paper version of the census survey

Read the written guidance

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