A damning new report reveals that, here in the UK in the 21st century, one and a quarter MILLION people each year can’t afford the basic essentials needed to eat, keep clean, and stay warm and dry. Around a third (400,000) had slept rough, begged or accessed a service intended to support complex needs such […]
As part of the Liverpool Echo’s campaign to highlight the plight of the city’s homeless, they have listed six things all of us could do to help out. Call ‘No Second Night Out’. This brilliant initiative between Liverpool City Council and the Whitechapel Centre aims to ensure that no one has to sleep rough for […]
With homelessness and rough sleeping in England on the rise – up 30% in a year to over 3,500 rough sleepers – campaigners are calling for a change in the law. At present, English councils only have to rehouse people faced with losing their homes who are judged to be “priority” cases. However, the single […]
Recent changes in housing benefit paid to low earners means the gap between the support they need and what they will now get will mean families in almost a third of the country will be more than £100 a month short. Housing charity Shelter warns that more than 330,000 working families across the country could […]
The Liverpool Echo is running a series of articles on homelessness this week, starting with the plight of rough sleepers. The Echo report states that research shows rough sleeping has almost doubled across Liverpool in the last year. It goes on to say that many people walking through the city centre will have noticed the […]
The homelessness crisis in England is continuing to grow with new figures showing people accepted as homeless by councils is up by a third since 2010. A Shelter analysis using the latest official data showed a 6% year-on-year rise in the total number of households accepted as homeless during 2015. This includes an 8% rise […]
Bosco House is pleased to announce that their new premises, Bosco Lodge, will be opening in May. The new premises will provide 13 luxury bedrooms over three floors and has office space, a meeting room, and car parks back and front. Bosco manager, Sheila Howard, said: “After winning the contract to provide supported housing, along […]
A council committee in Worthing, Sussex, has recommended a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) for approval at a council meeting later this month, says a report in The Independent. The Tory-run council is also set to bring in PSPOs to curb public drinking and camping in the town centre at the meeting on 19 April, following the recommendation of its […]
Homeless charities are demanding urgent changes to housing policy across Britain after an investigation by The Independent uncovered cases of children dying from neglect and abuse after families were moved out of their local authority boundaries. Apparently, councils are moving homeless families out of their local areas on an unprecedented scale to save money on […]
Tory minister Baroness Williams has caused outrage for blaming the country’s homeless crisis in part on people “choosing to sleep rough”. Homeless charities reacted with dismay after the peer said some rough sleepers made a free and conscious decision to be without a bed. When asked why homelessness had quadrupled under the Conservatives two consecutive […]
