UK Homelessness Assessments: Relief Duty Owed Decisions (Year-to-Date)

Government Digital Service data on homelessness assessments in the UK. The dataset records initial decisions where a relief duty is owed to individuals already experiencing homelessness, aggregated on a year-to-date basis. It is provided under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Monitor trends in relief duty decisions based on the year-to-date aggregation mentioned in the description
• Analyze government response to homelessness based on assessment outcomes
• Benchmark local authority performance on statutory homelessness duties

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative Government Digital Service
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely administrative data from local authority homelessness assessments.

Time Range

Year-to-date (YTD) coverage, specific years unknown.

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Likely United Kingdom, inferred from the OGL-UK-3.0 license and source.