The Mayor's Rough Sleeping Group (archive information)

Members were as follows:

Chair:

• Richard Blakeway, Deputy Mayor for Housing

Local authorities:

• Jennifer Travassos, Senior Manager of Rough Sleeping, Westminster City Council
• Tom Preest, Head of Community Safety, LB Camden
• Paul Davis, Senior Strategic Commissioning Manager, LB Lambeth
• Janet Slater, Service Manager, Housing Options and Assessments, LB Tower Hamlets
• Chris Pelham, Assistant Director of People Services, City of London Corporation
• Claire Linnane, Housing Strategy and Partnerships Manager, LB Southwark
• Gill Reavey, Head of Housing Solutions, LB Ealing

Other statutory sector:

• Becca Taber, Head of Rough Sleeping, Department for Communities and Local Government
• Marie Snelling, Director of Integrated Offender Management, Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime
• Commander Alison Newcomb, Metropolitan Police
• Chief Inspector Sean McDermid, Metropolitan Police
• Suran Padiachie, HM Inspector, Home Office
• Meradin Peachey, Director of Public Health, LB Newham, representing the Association of Directors of Public Health for London

Voluntary sector:

• Gary Messenger, Head of London and the South East, Homeless Link
• Jeremy Swain, Chief Executive, Thames Reach
• Howard Sinclair, Chief Executive, St Mungo's Broadway

The group also invited the relevant lead members from the local authorities represented to attend one meeting or event a year.

Priorities for 2015 can be found on page two of the Mayor’s Rough Sleeping Group: terms of reference and priorities for 2015.