{
 "title": "London referrals",
 "edition_date": "2026-10-10",
 "data_period": "January to March 2026",
 "london_summary": "In January to March 2026, London councils assessed 1,440 households that a public body had referred to them under the duty to refer, compared with 1,290 in January to March 2025. In the same quarter, 6,110 prevention duties ended in London. In 3,010 of them (49.3%), the household kept its home or moved to another home, secured for at least six months (49.8% in January to March 2025). These London totals are MHCLG's, rounded to the nearest 10 and including MHCLG's estimates for councils with missing data. MHCLG published a duty to refer figure for 32 of the 33 councils this quarter. A prevention share is shown for 32. Each entry without a figure says why. The councils are listed in alphabetical order. This is not a ranking.",
 "method_note": "Referrals: the number of households that a public body (for example a hospital, a prison, the probation service, Jobcentre Plus or social services) referred to the council under the duty to refer, and that the council then assessed in the quarter. The figure is MHCLG's table A7, \"Households referred by a public body under the duty to refer\". MHCLG counts a referral only when the household went on to be assessed: a household that did not contact the council after a referral is not counted (MHCLG note 15). The duty to refer came into force in October 2018.\n\nPrevention: of the households whose prevention duty ended in the quarter, the share that kept their home or moved to another home, secured for at least six months. MHCLG publishes the counts in table P1 (\"Households who secured accommodation for 6 or more months\" and \"Households whose prevention duty ended\"); the share is our calculation from those two counts, to one decimal place.\n\nChange on last year: the same quarter a year earlier, from that quarter's own MHCLG release, in households for referrals and in percentage points for prevention. The point change is the difference of the two shares as shown. MHCLG's figures are provisional and MHCLG revises earlier quarters at the end of each financial year, so a figure here can differ from a later revision.\n\nGaps: where MHCLG marks a council's figure as missing ([x] or ..) or suppressed ([c]), the entry says so and shows no number. A missing figure is never shown as zero. Council figures are not rounded; MHCLG rounds London and England totals to the nearest 10.\n\nReading the figures: councils record referrals differently, and small numbers move a lot from quarter to quarter, so a difference between two councils can come from how referrals are recorded, not how the duty is used. Councils are listed in alphabetical order, and nothing on this page ranks them.\n\nQuotes: one sentence from the council's own published documents about data, early help or the duty to refer, found and checked against the stored document by Second Order's evidence engine. Where no sentence passed the check, the entry says \"no checked statement found\".",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "MHCLG, Statutory homelessness in England: January to March 2026, detailed local authority level tables (tables A7 and P1)",
   "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-january-to-march-2026",
   "published": "2026-08-13"
  },
  {
   "name": "MHCLG, Statutory homelessness in England: January to March 2025, detailed local authority level tables (tables A7 and P1)",
   "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-january-to-march-2025",
   "published": "2025-07-22"
  }
 ],
 "boroughs": [
  {
   "code": "E09000002",
   "name": "Barking and Dagenham",
   "slug": "barking-and-dagenham",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 33,
    "change_yoy": -4
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 29.7,
    "change_yoy_pts": -2.1
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Barking and Dagenham's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000003",
   "name": "Barnet",
   "slug": "barnet",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 37,
    "change_yoy": -9
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 54.8,
    "change_yoy_pts": -0.5
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Barnet's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000004",
   "name": "Bexley",
   "slug": "bexley",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 45,
    "change_yoy": 35
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 67.5,
    "change_yoy_pts": -5.4
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Bexley's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000005",
   "name": "Brent",
   "slug": "brent",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 27,
    "change_yoy": -14
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 29.0,
    "change_yoy_pts": -3.6
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Brent's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000006",
   "name": "Bromley",
   "slug": "bromley",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 12,
    "change_yoy": -17
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 47.9,
    "change_yoy_pts": 11.8
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Bromley's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000007",
   "name": "Camden",
   "slug": "camden",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 59,
    "change_yoy": 12
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 50.4,
    "change_yoy_pts": 8.4
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Camden's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000001",
   "name": "City of London",
   "slug": "city-of-london",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 0,
    "change_yoy": 0
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": null,
    "change_yoy_pts": null
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No prevention duty ended in City of London in January to March 2026, so there is no share to show. No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold City of London's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000008",
   "name": "Croydon",
   "slug": "croydon",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 193,
    "change_yoy": null
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 12.3,
    "change_yoy_pts": 9.1
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No change on last year: MHCLG published no duty to refer figure for Croydon for January to March 2025. No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Croydon's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000009",
   "name": "Ealing",
   "slug": "ealing",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 28,
    "change_yoy": -22
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 50.0,
    "change_yoy_pts": -8.5
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store holds Ealing's own documents, but none gave a readable sentence about data, early help or the duty to refer that passed the check."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000010",
   "name": "Enfield",
   "slug": "enfield",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 50,
    "change_yoy": -20
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 69.3,
    "change_yoy_pts": 17.6
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store holds Enfield's own documents, but none gave a readable sentence about data, early help or the duty to refer that passed the check."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000011",
   "name": "Greenwich",
   "slug": "greenwich",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 65,
    "change_yoy": -29
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 51.5,
    "change_yoy_pts": -7.8
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Greenwich's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000012",
   "name": "Hackney",
   "slug": "hackney",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 62,
    "change_yoy": -5
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 56.0,
    "change_yoy_pts": 14.7
   },
   "quote": {
    "text": "The public authorities subject to the duty to refer are specified in the Homelessness (Review Procedure etc.) Regulations 2018",
    "document": "Hackney Council, “The Hackney Homeless and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2023-26” (cabinet report, 11 December 2023)",
    "page": "PDF p. 13",
    "url": "https://hackney.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s86127/F%20S255%20Homelessness%20and%20Rough%20Sleeping%20Report.pdf"
   },
   "gap_note": null
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000013",
   "name": "Hammersmith and Fulham",
   "slug": "hammersmith-and-fulham",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 9,
    "change_yoy": -10
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 41.5,
    "change_yoy_pts": 6.3
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Hammersmith and Fulham's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000014",
   "name": "Haringey",
   "slug": "haringey",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 24,
    "change_yoy": -11
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 51.7,
    "change_yoy_pts": -6.8
   },
   "quote": {
    "text": "Probation and Children's services especially through the duty to refer and Service Level Agreements",
    "document": "Haringey Council, “Haringey Homelessness Review 2026” (report, listed under “Positive relationships and working practices identified”)",
    "page": "PDF p. 35",
    "url": "https://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/documents/s156431/APPENDIX%202%20-%20Homelessness%20Review%202026%20-%20evidence%20base%20for%20the%20Haringey%20Homelessness%20Strategy.pdf"
   },
   "gap_note": null
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000015",
   "name": "Harrow",
   "slug": "harrow",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 28,
    "change_yoy": 14
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 56.9,
    "change_yoy_pts": -9.8
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Harrow's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000016",
   "name": "Havering",
   "slug": "havering",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 85,
    "change_yoy": 18
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 51.7,
    "change_yoy_pts": -0.8
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Havering's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000017",
   "name": "Hillingdon",
   "slug": "hillingdon",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 65,
    "change_yoy": null
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 38.7,
    "change_yoy_pts": 12.6
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No change on last year: MHCLG published no duty to refer figure for Hillingdon for January to March 2025. No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Hillingdon's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000018",
   "name": "Hounslow",
   "slug": "hounslow",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 39,
    "change_yoy": 6
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 29.1,
    "change_yoy_pts": -3.5
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Hounslow's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000019",
   "name": "Islington",
   "slug": "islington",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 67,
    "change_yoy": -2
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 52.5,
    "change_yoy_pts": -15.6
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Islington's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000020",
   "name": "Kensington and Chelsea",
   "slug": "kensington-and-chelsea",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 18,
    "change_yoy": 7
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 64.3,
    "change_yoy_pts": -16.0
   },
   "quote": {
    "text": "many households still approach the Council after becoming homeless",
    "document": "Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, “Draft Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2026–2031” (consultation draft, consultation opened 8 September 2026)",
    "page": "PDF p. 5",
    "url": "https://consult.rbkc.gov.uk/housing/homelessness/user_uploads/2405_hou---homelessness-and-rough-sleeping-strategy-2026------2031_aa.pdf"
   },
   "gap_note": null
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000021",
   "name": "Kingston upon Thames",
   "slug": "kingston-upon-thames",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": null,
    "change_yoy": null
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 60.9,
    "change_yoy_pts": null
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "MHCLG published no duty to refer figure for Kingston upon Thames for January to March 2026 (marked [x] by MHCLG: data missing or not reliable). No change on last year: MHCLG published no prevention outcome counts for Kingston upon Thames for January to March 2025. No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Kingston upon Thames's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000022",
   "name": "Lambeth",
   "slug": "lambeth",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 60,
    "change_yoy": -14
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 86.1,
    "change_yoy_pts": 2.5
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Lambeth's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000023",
   "name": "Lewisham",
   "slug": "lewisham",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 48,
    "change_yoy": 4
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 48.5,
    "change_yoy_pts": 0.6
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Lewisham's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000024",
   "name": "Merton",
   "slug": "merton",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 5,
    "change_yoy": 1
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 48.9,
    "change_yoy_pts": -11.2
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Merton's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000025",
   "name": "Newham",
   "slug": "newham",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 57,
    "change_yoy": -7
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 64.0,
    "change_yoy_pts": -2.7
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Newham's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000026",
   "name": "Redbridge",
   "slug": "redbridge",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 26,
    "change_yoy": -3
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 27.8,
    "change_yoy_pts": -21.9
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store holds Redbridge's own documents, but none gave a readable sentence about data, early help or the duty to refer that passed the check."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000027",
   "name": "Richmond upon Thames",
   "slug": "richmond-upon-thames",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 2,
    "change_yoy": -2
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 53.5,
    "change_yoy_pts": -10.0
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Richmond upon Thames's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000028",
   "name": "Southwark",
   "slug": "southwark",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 67,
    "change_yoy": -3
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 78.5,
    "change_yoy_pts": 7.1
   },
   "quote": {
    "text": "In 2024-2025 the council recorded a 72% success rate in preventing homelessness where early help was provided",
    "document": "Southwark Council, “Council unveils five-year plan to tackle homelessness in midst of national housing crisis” (news, 24 June 2025)",
    "page": "web page",
    "url": "https://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2025/council-unveils-five-year-plan-tackle-homelessness-midst-national-housing-crisis"
   },
   "gap_note": null
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000029",
   "name": "Sutton",
   "slug": "sutton",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 8,
    "change_yoy": -2
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 45.5,
    "change_yoy_pts": -11.5
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Sutton's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000030",
   "name": "Tower Hamlets",
   "slug": "tower-hamlets",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 72,
    "change_yoy": 18
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 47.2,
    "change_yoy_pts": 0.0
   },
   "quote": {
    "text": "In 2022/23, there were more people presenting at the prevention stage (1879)",
    "document": "Tower Hamlets Council, “Tower Hamlets Homelessness & Rough Sleeping Strategy 2024 -2029” (strategy, 27 November 2024)",
    "page": "PDF p. 33",
    "url": "https://democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/documents/s245512/Appendix.%204%20for%20Approval%20of%20the%20councils%20new%20Homelessness%20and%20Rough%20Sleeping%20Strategy%202024-2029.pdf"
   },
   "gap_note": null
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000031",
   "name": "Waltham Forest",
   "slug": "waltham-forest",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 81,
    "change_yoy": 8
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 45.5,
    "change_yoy_pts": 18.5
   },
   "quote": null,
   "gap_note": "No checked statement found. Second Order's evidence store does not yet hold Waltham Forest's own strategy or committee papers."
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000032",
   "name": "Wandsworth",
   "slug": "wandsworth",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 55,
    "change_yoy": 0
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 50.5,
    "change_yoy_pts": 22.3
   },
   "quote": {
    "text": "Public authorities have a statutory duty to refer service users who they believe are homeless or threatened with homelessness to a local authority.",
    "document": "Wandsworth Council, “New direction for housing in Wandsworth Housing and Homelessness Strategy 2023-2028” (strategy, 14 March 2024)",
    "page": "PDF p. 10",
    "url": "https://wandsworth.gov.uk/media/1d5fwvr0/housing_and_homelessness_strategy_2023_2028.pdf"
   },
   "gap_note": null
  },
  {
   "code": "E09000033",
   "name": "Westminster",
   "slug": "westminster",
   "referrals": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "value": 7,
    "change_yoy": 0
   },
   "prevention": {
    "quarter": "January to March 2026",
    "share": 89.2,
    "change_yoy_pts": -7.6
   },
   "quote": {
    "text": "Data for 2022/2023 shows that Westminster has a higher proportion (77%) of approaches at this stage compared with London overall (55%)",
    "document": "Westminster City Council, “Homelessness Review September 2024” (report, section 8.4, on approaches at the Relief Duty stage)",
    "page": "PDF p. 11",
    "url": "https://committees.westminster.gov.uk/documents/s65402/Appendix%20B%20-%20Westminster%20Homelessness%20Review%20Executive%20Summary.pdf"
   },
   "gap_note": null
  }
 ]
}