Homeless, pregnant and terrified - the young mums with nowhere nice to bring baby back to
As Shauna Perrin cradles her baby bump, she points to the walls and ceilings which are coated with thick black specks of mould.
But now she has a leak in her new property, and her 20-month-old daughter's bedroom is covered in damp. Shauna claims both of them have been ill with chest infections. "I want to move. I don't want a house where it's causing my baby and me problems. In the last house the ceiling went through, and because of the dampness it gave the baby bronchiolitis."
In an additional 39 child death reviews, overcrowding, threats of evictions, and extended family accommodation were recorded as factors that may have contributed to the child's death. Most of the children hadn't even reached the age of one. There are currently around 95,060 households like Shauna's in temporary accommodation across the country, including 119,840 children. And, as the cost-of-living crisis continues to tighten its grip, the threat of homelessness and housing insecurity is becoming a reality for more people.
The woman, who asked not to be named, said after hearing about the death of Awaab Ishak, who died after prolonged exposure to damp and mould at his flat in Rochdale, that she feared her daughter's cough could be due to the sub-standard living conditions. "I'm just thinking, if she just keeps on breathing in damp and mould, it's going to keep coming back. The damp and mould in my daughter's bedroom, it stinks. Last year the ceiling went through in my daughter's room due to water damage.
"Family respondents also mentioned being placed in confined spaces, and/or without basic cooking facilities to enable adequate nutritional consumption." "The housing emergency is putting children’s lives at risk, and it must be stopped. To protect families from homelessness the government must immediately unfreeze and increase housing benefit so people can keep a roof over their head, and invest in building decent social homes."
"All these accumulating things affect that child. If a child is going to school and they are hungry it does accumulate to that long-term health problem and their cognitive development. "Temporary accommodation needs to be regulated and enforced. When it comes to safeguarding children it's everyone's responsibility. Children are dying right now. The housing officers and councils that have to deal with this day to day rarely get a voice on this and the vast majority of them work incredibly hard, but the resources and funds are so limited.
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