Jessica Murray
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328 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Jessica Murray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So in Manchester, Andy Burnham launched the A Bed Every Night scheme in 2018, which was pretty kind of radical.
There's nothing else like it in the country.
And essentially it kind of did what it said on the tin.
It was about getting a bed for anyone in the city who was rough sleeping.
Why it was different to what we've seen elsewhere is that there was a very low barrier to entry.
So in a lot of other parts of the country, you have to prove a local connection or you have to prove that you're sort of high priority needs.
There's quite a lot of boxes that you need to tick essentially before you can get access to that support.
Whereas in Manchester, it was essentially if you are rough sleeping and you're in Manchester, you can access that.
And it also included a lot of wraparound support.
So it wasn't just a bed.
There was also kind of caseworkers who would help someone if they had mental health problems, drug and alcohol addiction issues, that kind of thing.
And I had quite a lot of good success in the early years.
It brought rough sleeping down in the city from between 2017 and 2020, it reduced by 57%.
So it had a really immediate impact.
He introduced a housing first trial in the city.
There was a few parts of the country which did this trial.
It's a pilot scheme just sort of targeted towards entrenched rough sleepers who had quite complex needs.
And it was essentially, you know, instead of sort of putting them into this kind of temporary emergency accommodation, you'd put them straight into
secure, suitable home, a nice warm bed, a secure space, their own space.
And it's a model that has been used throughout the world.
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