Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 263-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
Access to NHS Mental Health Services for young people experiencing homelessness
1. Age range: 18 to 24 years.
2. Accommodation status: Those identified as living in homeless supported accommodation targeted at 16–24 year olds, such as (but not limited to):
• YMCA supported housing
• Depaul supported housing
• Foyer projects
• Similar supported accommodation schemes for homeless young people.
3. Time period: From 1 January 2020 to the most recent available data.
• The number of individuals aged 18–24 each year since 2020 who were identified as living in homeless supported accommodation (as defined above).
• If available, a breakdown by year (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 to date).
Our response:
Unfortunately we do not collect data in a format that describes what specific housing or what status their current living situation is. This is something that we are working on and hope in the next year we would be able to have a suitable data collection reflecting this.
We do capture some information but in the notes section of the clinical record, so we are very aware of the location and plans for rehoming. It’s just not recorded in a way that can be pulled as a report unfortunately.
The main services that these service users are part of is the Complex Homelessness Partnership Support Service (CHPSS). We also offer Mental Health appointments at our Homeless Healthcare Service (primary care access centre).
Next steps:
Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:
Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk
If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.