Accommodation for Ex-Offenders
Case reference FOI2025/00394
Received 19 June 2025
Published 30 June 2025
Request
Date range of information requested: Phase 1: July 2021 - March 2023 Phase 2: April 2023 - March 2025
1. How many ex-offenders have been housed using the funding allocated to your local authority. Please give figures for each phase separately if applicable.
2. Please give information on how much funding was spent in the following areas. (a) Rent and deposits; (b) Incentives for landlords to join the scheme; (c) Dedicated support staff such as landlord liaison and tenancy support/sustainment officers. Please give figures for each phase separately if applicable.
3. If funding was used as incentives for landlords, how many ex-offenders did those landlords' house. This can be given as one total amount. Please give figures for each phase separately if applicable.
4. If the total amount allocated to your local authority as part of the AFEO scheme has not been used, please give details of how much remains unspent. One total figure is acceptable.
5. If the total amount allocated to your local authority has not been used, please give details of what is to be done with the remainder of the funding.
Response
1. How many ex-offenders have been housed using the funding allocated to your local authority. Please give figures for each phase separately if applicable.
Phase 1: July 2021 - March 2023 - 5 Phase 2: April 2023 - March 2025 - 0
2. Please give information on how much funding was spent in the following areas. (a) Rent and deposits; (b) Incentives for landlords to join the scheme; (c) Dedicated support staff such as landlord liaison and tenancy support/sustainment officers. Please give figures for each phase separately if applicable.
Phase 1
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Rent & Deposits - £12,767.30
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Other - £90.83
3. If funding was used as incentives for landlords, how many ex-offenders did those landlords' house. This can be given as one total amount. Please give figures for each phase separately if applicable.
N/A
4. If the total amount allocated to your local authority as part of the AFEO scheme has not been used, please give details of how much remains unspent. One total figure is acceptable.
£52,297.00
5. If the total amount allocated to your local authority has not been used, please give details of what is to be done with the remainder of the funding.
Remainder of funding being used as Landlord incentives and private rented start-up costs for ex-offenders.
Documents
This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.