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Housing teams in Exeter have been helping rough sleepers come inside during the cold weather over the weekend.
The city council activated its Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) on Friday as weekend overnight temperatures plummeted to below freezing. SWEP ended today (Monday 4 March)
The Protocol makes extra emergency accommodation available to rough sleepers.
Cllr Martin Pearce, Lead Councillor for Communities and Homelessness, said anyone sleeping rough in the city was identified by the Council’s Outreach team.
"Over the course of the weekend we made a total of 17 accommodation offers of which 12 were taken up.
“Of the five that were unable to take up the offer, four of them the Outreach Team could not locate and the other one was recalled back to prison.”
Cllr Pearce thanked the city council’s housing teams and its partners for their hard work and planning to be able to get people inside out of the elements.
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