Council failures accidentally left man sleeping on the streets for 6 months

We have become used to reporting appalling failures by Liverpool City Council. But the latest example has left us particularly shocked.

During the 2020 lockdown most of us remained safely in our homes, and we believed promises from the council that every homeless person had been moved to temporary accommodation in an unused student housing block. 

One man however, found himself homeless in June 2020 and contacted the council for help. Despite repeated requests for help from him, and from the police, he was left sleeping rough on the streets until December 2020.

In the end, he was only helped after someone took him to another area, where a different council quickly put him in temporary accommodation.

Liverpool City Council has now been slammed by the Local Government Ombudsman, and forced to pay compensation for the failure.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/ways-liverpool-council-failed-man-26311168

Last year, Labour councillors decided to give £4 Million of homeless cash back to the government.

This was meant to create a new  “homeless recovery centre” with 60 en-suite bedrooms and 40 one bed apartments to help the formerly homeless get used to living independently.

This latest shocking failure shows that vulnerable people are slipping through the net, and this council are letting sown those who need help the most.