Eligibility criteria
To be eligible for emergency housing when the SWEP is triggered, a person must be sleeping rough, or at risk of sleeping rough and be willing to accept the assistance offered.
Sleeping rough is defined as: people sleeping, about to bed down (sitting on/in or standing next to their bedding) or bedded down in the open air (such as on the streets, in tents, doorways, parks, bus shelters or encampments) and in buildings or other places not designed for habitation (such as stairwells, barns, sheds, car parks, cars, derelict boats, stations, or “bashes”).