Report highlights 'completely unacceptable' situation of children in one-night-only accommodation

A new report has detailed how families with children, including new-borns and those with life-threatening illnesses, have been existing in one night only accommodation due to the homeless crisis.

The Report on the Lived Experiences of Homeless Families by the Mercy Law Resource Centre, an independent law centre and registered charity, found that they had to intervene on behalf of clients in the most desperate circumstances, including a family with a child who could not store medication for their sick child for six weeks because they had no access to a fridge, and a mother-of-six discharged back into one night only accommodation with a baby in a situation described by her doctor as "completely unacceptable".