homeless at xmas

Shelter Scotland who say over 4000 youngsters across Scotland will spend the winter in temporary accommodation. Glasgow with the most in the whole of Scotland, with 1088 homeless kids. 353 children in South Lanarkshire will be homeless this Christmas.

Graeme Brown, Director of Shelter Scotland work said: “No child should be homeless at Christmas but each December Shelter Scotland’s helpline advisors have to help hundreds of families at risk of losing their home.”

Rutherglen MSP James Kelly described the situation as an “absolute scandal…Despite this crisis 23,000 homes across the country are lying empty, and the Scottish Government’s own figures have shown a 22 per cent drop in social house building in the last year.”