Focus Ireland campaign seeks to require local authorities to take ‘best interests of child’ into account
The Bill aimed to amend the 1988 Housing Act so that local authorities would be required to consider the ‘best interests of the child’ in their decision making when a family presented as homeless.
Local authorities are currently saying to families seeking help: “go back to your brother or your sister or a friend and stay with them and sleep on their sofa for the next while until you can sort yourself out”, Mr Allen said.Mr Allen said that the legislation would not “solve all the problems” but that its great advantage was its simplicity and its clarity.
“Experiencing homelessness is a dreadful thing for anybody, man, woman or child, but particularly for children. It’s an appalling experience,” Mr Allen said. “The loss of their home is traumatic in the first place. Then emergency accommodation may be a long way from your school and there may be no place for doing homework. You can’t invite your friends around. You lose all that sort of social contact,” he said.
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