SERVICE DETAILS
Our Street Teams are out and about across the capital city every single day.
Engaging with people who are rough sleeping, begging and in need of our support.
Since the start of 2022 our team have regularly been preventing over 40 people a week from rough sleeping on the streets of Edinburgh, supporting them into accommodation.
Our Street Team is relationship focused
Trust is a huge element of what we do. We meet people where they’re at, often supporting them into accommodation – other times we ensure they’re as supported as possible.
Our Street Teams work 7 days a week supporting people who appear to be at risk of homelessness and rough sleeping on the streets of Edinburgh.
They receive information from the public, partnership organisations and through their own networks, regarding people who may be sleeping rough or begging in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
People end up on the streets of Scotland’s two main cities for multiple reasons
Quite simply – they often have nowhere else to go and our teams can often provide over 350 supports a week. Working in shifts, our teams work from 7:00am 11:00pm, covering known rough sleeping and begging sites, and also responding to calls from the public or partnership organisations to our Freephone numbers. The number of people sleeping rough in
Edinburgh is reviewed daily and reported to the relevant local authorities weekly.
