Category Archives: Children in Temporary Accommodation

Yesterday, I joined the National Plan to End Homelessness panel at the Shared Health Foundation conference to talk about a crisis that too often gets reduced to statistics. The numbers matter. In Oldham, 588 children are currently living in temporary accommodation. More than 100 households with children have been there for over a year, 42Continue reading “Behind every number is a family – no child should grow up in temporary accommodation”

Today we’ve drawn a line under one of the most unfair parts of our housing system. Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions are officially banned. For too long, renters have lived with the constant fear of being forced out of their home with little notice and no reason. That ends today. Over 32,000 households were threatened withContinue reading “BIG NEWS: No-fault evictions are officially banned!”

I spoke in the well subscribed debate on Homelessness today, and I was keen to put the human cost forward as well as the financial cost of failure. In Oldham there are 517 households with 633 children living in temporary B&B and shared nightly facility accommodation. Though we call it temporary accommodation 10% have beenContinue reading “Homelessness Debate in Westminster Hall”

Finally, a level playing field for tenants! Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions abolished Decent Home standard applied to the private rented sector End rental bidding wars More rights for home owners with pets End to huge amounts of rent upfront No more fixed term tenancies This Government has taken action to enhance renters’ rights and endContinue reading “Renters’ Rights enshrined in law!”

Thank you to the Shared Health Foundation for meeting with me last week to discuss the work they do locally to support children & families in temporary accommodation. They are experts in health inequalities which, as a clinically-led & evidence-based not-for-profit established on Fitton Hill, to work across Greater Manchester, from the ground up, toContinue reading “Working with the Shared health Foundation to help children & families in temporary accommodation in Oldham”

Every week I speak to parents doing their best in incredibly difficult circumstances. Families living in a single room, children with no space to play, no privacy, and no certainty about what comes next. It is not right and it is not sustainable. These cases are not one-offs. They are part of a wider housingContinue reading “No family should have to raise their children in temporary accommodation”

“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝟏𝟒 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚.” In Oldham the number of young in temporary accommodation with their family has hit an unacceptable 𝟲𝟵𝟬 children. While much of the accommodation will meetContinue reading “Children in Temporary Accommodation”