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I genuinely don't remember the discussion. In any case there are many variables in many situations. Being entitled to benefits and receiving them are two different things. Receiving benefits and having the capacity to spend them appropriately are two different things...It goes on. Anyway, I am...

The Tories have cut services across the board causing more people to be homeless. The cuts made by Boris Johnson to woman's services in the city of London led directly to a rise in the number of deaths of vulnerable women. The Tories have cut funding to services for vulnerable people, young...

Have we? The number of volunteers is at an all time high.

Sorry but that is a very ignorant comment. What if you have mental health problems and cannot simply "become a stronger person"? What if your Dad and Brothers took turns in raping you repeatedly from the age of 5 and since being homeless you have been raped a few more times. "Come on flowerpot...

I'd like to see how they propose to cure the homeless problem in practical terms. They simply won't be able to stop people leaving their supplied accommodation to sleep on the streets then they lose that accommodation because they have left it vacant and so on and so on. Unless they are going to...

Depends on whether it's a workable idea or just another quick fix to pacify the electorate.

The people I work with, man, some of their backgrounds and childhoods are shocking. I think half the battle is that people are simply unaware of the trauma some people go through.

It's mostly to do with family backgrounds. To be honest, it's far too complex to go into on a thread but in a nutshell, a lot of young people do not have as much of a choice as most people think. Sometimes literally. It's a dark world out there.

You know, you can be throughly pissed off with someone for what they have done but also have empathy for their situation.

It’s a fine line. Help has to be there to safeguard the vulnerable in society but one of the reasons they don’t change is because they don’t have to. Yet we must safeguard against them falling into DV relationships, prostitution and further drug use. Once the spiral starts it’s almost...

You have to get to these poor people as children. That’s when the damage is done . More money for social services and child protection.