Lawyers have warned Edinburgh City Council it is committing a criminal offence by paying operators who don't comply with health and safety licensing requirements, but camaigners say the move will come at a cost to the homeless.
An Edinburgh Council plan to move 700 homeless people out of unlicensed temporary accommodation before the start of December could put some 'back on the streets' or into less suitable housing, homelessness leaders have warned. The council has booked hundreds of rooms in hotels and B&Bs as temporary accommodation in response to rising demand since the pandemic, when emergency action was taken to prevent the spread o f Covid-19.
Keeping the centre open, with en suite facilities, the council supports individual’s privacy and stability. “The average new attendance of people who are new to such circumstances, is about 26 new people every week…so the projected figures over the next 24 weeks is about 600 people that would therefore, if you remove the safety net, those individuals would either fall through it or increase the demand on every other service to seek to mitigate.
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