Tender: Single Homelessness Prevention Service – Rochdale (1 Jan 2027 to 31 Mar 2029)

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The Single Homelessness Prevention Service (Rochdale) is seeking an organisation to deliver a prevention-focused homelessness service across the Rochdale, Heywood and Pennine Townships from 1 January 2027 to 31 March 2029. The provider must have a proven track record of engaging people experiencing multiple disadvantage or marginalised groups in the Borough of Rochdale and deliver a neighbourhood hub and outreach-based model. Local data highlights high demand and complex needs—including financial resilience challenges, substance use, offending histories and previous rough sleeping—that increase the risk of housing instability and repeat homelessness. The service must move beyond crisis and accommodation-focused responses to deliver integrated interventions that address underlying factors affecting an individual’s ability to sustain housing. The primary purpose is to prevent first-time homelessness, repeat homelessness and rough sleeping through early identification, proactive engagement and tenancy sustainment, providing structured engagement plans, immediate crisis intervention, specialist prevention support and outreach to harder-to-reach individuals to prevent escalation into statutory homelessness.