First of all I would like to congratulate our local MP on being made Minister for Homelessness, it’s a very important job. It’s also very sad that such a job exists. I’m sure when I was young there was a minister for housing, not homelessness. To me having a Minister for Homelessness is an admission… Read More Minister for the Homeless
BY ANDREW MOODY Yesterday was the 76th anniversary of the D Day landings. I have been on the Ward since last November, before that, in the Unit in Glasgow since last August. This is the longest stretch I’ve done since I started in on the psych game aged 19 in 2002. One of the patients… Read More Thoughts from Lockdown
BY IAN (Outreach Worker, Tiverton) The initial results of a survey by the UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health reveal the coronavirus death rate of homeless people living in London’s hostels is 25 times higher than the general adult population. It found that 38% of hostels in the capital had suspected Covid-19 cases, with 41%… Read More Homeless Hit Hard by Coronavirus
On a sobering note during the festive period, the BBC today reported that homeless people “die 30 years younger” than the national average. The Daily Telegraph said that “homeless women die ‘by age 43’” while The Guardian said that homeless people have a “life expectancy of just 47”. These headlines are based on initial findings of research into the… Read More Homeless Life Expectancy
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