Cold Weather - Rough Sleeping

What is needed in reality is a proper one stop shop for ALL, where the right benefit claims are made for those who do suffer job loss, where proper advise is available for those who have had a relationship breakdown.

Why am I going on about all of this? Birmingham Council has just announced the opening of the Cold Weather Shelter for the "Rough Sleepers", who according to a recent report amount to only 4 people, whereas those who work in this field know that this number is well exceeded and by some margin to boot.

Read page 13, which wants us all to believe that only 4 people sleep rough in Birmingham City Centre!!!!

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?%26ssbinary=true&blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobheadername1=Content-Disposition&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1223414621385&blobheadervalue1=attachment%3B+filename%3D488249AreaAssessment2009Birmingham_Full.pdf.