deaths in social housing [UNC]
Case reference FOI2019/00078
Published 11 June 2019
Request
1) How many people HOUSED BY THE COUNCIL died in a. General needs housing managed by the council b. General needs housing managed by any other organisation, including housing associations and RMOs. c. Sheltered Housing d. Temporary Accommodation e. Emergency Accommodation f. Any other type of housing To be clear: I'd like you to count all the people housed by the council, including those housed in other councils' areas.
2) For each of those deaths, broken down by year and type of accommodation as per Q1: a. How many were reported to the coroner? b. How many required an inquest? c. For those that went to inquest, what was the recorded cause of death? (e.g. drugs, suicide, natural causes etc.) d. What was the age of the person who died?
3) At the end of each financial year (i.e. on 31st March) please could you tell me the total number of PEOPLE (not households) housed in each of the types of accommodation in Q1? To be clear - I'd like the total number of people housed AT THAT POINT, not the total housed across the previous financial year.
Response
Further to your request, you have asked how many people housed by the council died, however you did not specify which years. I have therefore supplied information for the years 2014/15, 2016/17 and 2018/19.
The information has been broken down into General Needs and Sheltered Accommodation as this is how we record the information.
Please see below the breakdown of Deaths in housing for the following years:
2014/15 - there were 149 deaths of which, 41 were in Sheltered Accommodation.
2016/17 - there were 142 deaths of which, 36 were in Sheltered Accommodation.
2018/19 - there were 67 deaths of which, 14 were in Sheltered Accommodation.
I cannot give you details of those that died that were in other councils as we do not hold this information.
We do not hold any of the information you request in Question 2, I would refer you to the coroners office for this information.
In relation to Question 3, I can confirm that for Quarter 1 (April -June 2018) we housed 58 people, 46 of which were in General Needs, 10 were in Sheltered and 2 were in Supported Housing.
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