about NOTIFY

Housing departments and social services departments both contribute information to the NOTIFY system. Housing departments supply weekly information about households in temporary accommodation. Social services departments indicate whether they have (or have had) any involvement with households containing children that move across borough boundaries.

The nature of the temporary accommodation market in London, where households are often placed in or moved to unfamiliar locations away from existing support networks, has led to widespread concern that some households do not receive or know how to access local services.

An overview of NOTIFY - the London boroughs temporary accommodation notifications and information system.