Trust for homeless children warns resources stretched

The Depaul Trust has warned that having to assist 272 children in its Dublin homeless service so far this year is a “worrying scenario”, and unsustainable given that its resources are already “stretched to capacity”.

Last year, the Depaul Trust assisted 240 homeless children through its services but that figure has been surpassed in just the first nine months of this year and comes after the overall figure for the number of homeless families has spiralled upwards throughout 2016.

Depaul manages three family homeless services in Dublin and the charity’s CEO, Kerry Anthony, said: “The numbers are the highest they have been on record.”