Prince William issues strong statement after Harry security blow
Key takeaways
- A post shared by Cabinet Office (@cabinetoffice)
- “The goal for each Homewards location is to establish a locally-rooted ‘business plan’ that makes homelessness ‘rare, brief and unrepeated’, a model that could be scaled up across the country.”
- The scheme has been financially backed with £1.9 million from the core Homewards Fund and has raised an additional £3.5 million in private philanthropic funding and targeted grants”.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize Prince William delivered a compelling speech on Wednesday to commemorate the third anniversary of Homewards, a flagship initiative aimed at proving that homelessness can be ending for good across the UK.
Speaking at an event with stakeholders, government officials and community partners at a milestone event for the five-year scheme, the Prince of Wales declared that the root of the problem was systemic, not the individuals themselves. “Homelessness is not an individual failure; it is a systemic failure,” Prince William declared. “And, if systems help create the problem, then systems can help prevent it.”
The Royal’s “game-changing” venture has been actively operating in six different parts of the country, since being launched in June 2021 by the Prince and The Royal Foundation, to end the cycle of homelessness in Aberdeen, Bournemouth, Belfast, Lambeth, Newport, and Sheffield.