More than 60,000 armed forces veterans in the UK are either homeless, are suffering mental health problems, or are in prison, research has revealed. The scale of their struggle to adjust to civilian life brought accusations that ministers were failing men and women who had risked their lives for their country. According to the analysis, […]
The government is accused of sustaining “austerity by stealth”, with housing and planning facing cuts of £30m per year by 2023/24. Analysis from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) shows services with no current spending protections could see further real-terms cuts of 2.1% after 2020. This includes vital areas of service provision now facing a continuation […]
A new micro-pub is being planned in Liverpool, set up as a social enterprise with all profits going to charities in the area that deal with poverty and the effects of poverty. According to independent-liverpool.co.uk, the new addition to the burgeoning Liverpool bar scene will have a strict policy of only stocking drinks from independent […]
Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is putting $2bn (£1.5bn) into a charitable fund he has established to help the homeless and set up a new network of schools. The world’s richest man announced the move in a tweet, saying the charity would be called the Day One Fund. Mr Bezos – reportedly worth more than $164bn […]
A homeless man was spray-painted by a heartless bully. His body was found days after the attack. A video emerged last week of Michael, whose age is not known, having been sprayed with red paint near to a Tesco convenience store in Middlesborough. The eight-second clip was uploaded to Facebook where a man says “this is […]
A mum has warned other parents after a strange man followed her teenage son through Liverpool city centre asking him distressing questions. The 15-year-old boy was alone when he was approached on Church Street shortly before 8am on Thursday. His mother said that a man walked up to her son outside Primark, and tried to […]
Blackburn magistrates heard Andrew Hugh Davie was subject to a criminal behaviour order (CBO) that bans him from sleeping in a public place between 9am and 9pm. The two year CBO, which was made by Blackpool magistrates earlier this year, came because Davie was homeless and sleeping on the streets in Blackpool. The 39-year-old thought […]
The government won’t make fixed term tenancies mandatory but has stressed the need for on-going flexibility in tenancy terms. Communities Secretary James Brokenshire confirmed the government’s stance in a written statement saying: “After listening carefully to social housing residents, we are proposing not to implement the provisions in the Housing and Planning Act to make […]
The government has performed a dramatic U-turn over plans to drastically limit funds for supported housing, following an outcry from charities supporting vulnerable groups. The plans, announced by the prime minister Theresa May last year, was to place councils in charge of ring-fenced funding for emergency accommodation such as women’s refuges and homeless shelters. But housing […]
Discarded food items left behind by music fans at Reading Festival has been salvaged to give to homeless people. According to BBC News, up to 60 food bags will be handed out to rough sleepers after a team of volunteers collected left behind food ahead of the final clean up. Grace Gomez, who runs a […]
