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<blockquote data-quote="deannatrois" data-source="post: 932850" data-attributes="member: 204168"><p>Yes I have taken my S21 to Housing. They are not refusing me emergency accommodation. They are refusing to up our priority based on medical/mental health needs so we can actually bid successfully on a house.., they say I have to make a case to make sure we aren't sent to one room shared lettings but I have no assurance that suddenly the medical/mental needs that don't up our housing priority will ensure we won't be sent to one room shared lettings as emergency accommodation.</p><p></p><p>I am NOT saying the council won't provide emergency housing.., I AM saying I doubt its going to be even vaguely suitable. I AM saying there seems to be nothing I can do. The council seems to be able to set their own policy.., and decide what they will and won't accept. I don't know how there is no protection for people in my situation, but that seems to be the way it is.</p><p></p><p>I have already printed out the councils housing policy document.., its a lot more detailed than what's on the web (but you have to know where it is to find it, I got l lucky when doing some research, just happened to put in the right term).</p><p></p><p>Both of my sons have problems sleeping, problems with boundaries (older son is three times the size of younger son and I do have to be careful that when older son is not feeling so good, my younger son doesn't make him violent, not either son's fault), both sons need quiet places where they can destress.., - not gonna be available in one room. Shared lettings with shared facilities could be quite difficult for them. With my older son NEET, its going to be harder, he will have nowhere to go. Time in a refuge showed what happens then. We had to leave, no choice. But this time I won't have anywhere else to go. I don't have anything but bad feelings about this. I can't say how I feel. To be honest I am less than one step from giving up. There is just no sense to this system unless you are a politician trying to cut costs who views carers purely as an unwanted expense.</p><p></p><p>I am also aware that after 12 weeks I could be offered another private rental, and unless I can prove I can't afford it, I then face the LL problems I have now. And moving in a year, whole process starting up again if I moved to a place with a fixed term of one year. At the moment the council seem to be accepting I can't afford private rentals. Private rentals are £200 more than LHA in this area.</p><p></p><p>Because I am depressed, and am finding it difficult coping, i was referred to community mental health. This is a team of social workers. Including a guy who helped with housing. That led to a big fall in trust on my part in anything. The housing guy told me to relax, he'd make sure i was given housing. He told me he 'had gone to panel, got an agreement for me to be given 'B' banding which would be a guarantee of housing when bidding. Housing say there were no panels at the time he said he'd attended one. He told me I'd be in housing by end of July. But by end of June he phoned to say I needed a possession order (at that stage LL hadn't even given me a possession order but I kept talking to him about this as I was wondering how I could be being told so many different things). After that I went back to my social worker and said how could this be happening. I walked out in shock at the way he talked to me. When I asked a supervisor to read my notes, it seems as if all my notes said I would never be rehoused without a S21.., but face to face this housing guy was quite different. I was treated like I'd made the conversations up even though when he said I would be rehoused by July, there was a student there as well. I hadn't. Honestly I hadn't. I still don't understand how this debacle could happen. I know it stretches the imagination. I stopped allowing the LL's to do viewings based on what this housing guy said because it caused me such a lot of pain getting the house 'show room ready'. I thought I was going to be offered social housing soon. When I talked about the stress caused by the housing process.., he seemed to understand and be able to do something about it. Obviously I was wrong to believe this. He never even went to panel. I am still Band D. The highest band when bidding I can hope for is C.., after I am deemed homeless and a bailiffs warrant has been served (the housing guy wasn't even right about the procedure in his final phone call when he said I would be changed to band B when I had a possession order, the council only ups priority when you have a bailliffs warrant and you have days to move out).</p><p></p><p>Onchy (thank you) did refer to NHS and Community Care Act, I'm not sure, but I think it is under that I had a carers assessment. I have a carers support worker, through Carers First who are appointed to do the assessments in my area. She's recommended me to two charities that don't work in the area I live in. She was the one that suggested to my son's social worker that maybe SS's could pay for him to have a support worker 3 hours a week as respite. So she did help. Now she just says 'sorry its so tough, I don't know what I can do'. It wasn't a magic wand.</p><p></p><p>There's so many agencies involved, IASK (who are going to help me with my younger son as his school are brickwalling me as far as his support needs are concerned) but they also told me a couple of wrong things. You get hopeful then find out its not going to help because of some clause or other. My son's social worker who is trying her best but can't help with education, housing, who won't see the big picture.., carers support worker who has now given up, long email chains with both of my son's education places.., going no where, Shelter who tell me there's nothing I can do about the housing situation except argue for not shared lettings emergency accommodation. And I am trying to keep the house clean, do blood sugars hourly and stop peaks and spikes in my blood sugars, get food, cook it, look after my two sons, deal with an ex who is like a child at times, pack up, do research, communicate with all these people, write emails, etc etc. I'm exhausted and out of options. And worse, none of it has done much good, certainly iwth housing.., I'm just more aware of how there's no where to turn.</p><p></p><p>I feel like I've tried everything I can think of, chased after everything I've found as a possibility, but people are playing games with me. I Know how it looks, I know I must seem to be crazy. But I am saying honestly what has happened.</p><p></p><p>Sorry about the really long post. I needed to explain things a bit more. I think I am a gonna. I think my sons are going to end up in care. I don't want it that way but I don't have anything left to fight with. And it seems like there is no way of changing the procedure based on need that the council won't listen to. Its bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="deannatrois, post: 932850, member: 204168"] Yes I have taken my S21 to Housing. They are not refusing me emergency accommodation. They are refusing to up our priority based on medical/mental health needs so we can actually bid successfully on a house.., they say I have to make a case to make sure we aren't sent to one room shared lettings but I have no assurance that suddenly the medical/mental needs that don't up our housing priority will ensure we won't be sent to one room shared lettings as emergency accommodation. I am NOT saying the council won't provide emergency housing.., I AM saying I doubt its going to be even vaguely suitable. I AM saying there seems to be nothing I can do. The council seems to be able to set their own policy.., and decide what they will and won't accept. I don't know how there is no protection for people in my situation, but that seems to be the way it is. I have already printed out the councils housing policy document.., its a lot more detailed than what's on the web (but you have to know where it is to find it, I got l lucky when doing some research, just happened to put in the right term). Both of my sons have problems sleeping, problems with boundaries (older son is three times the size of younger son and I do have to be careful that when older son is not feeling so good, my younger son doesn't make him violent, not either son's fault), both sons need quiet places where they can destress.., - not gonna be available in one room. Shared lettings with shared facilities could be quite difficult for them. With my older son NEET, its going to be harder, he will have nowhere to go. Time in a refuge showed what happens then. We had to leave, no choice. But this time I won't have anywhere else to go. I don't have anything but bad feelings about this. I can't say how I feel. To be honest I am less than one step from giving up. There is just no sense to this system unless you are a politician trying to cut costs who views carers purely as an unwanted expense. I am also aware that after 12 weeks I could be offered another private rental, and unless I can prove I can't afford it, I then face the LL problems I have now. And moving in a year, whole process starting up again if I moved to a place with a fixed term of one year. At the moment the council seem to be accepting I can't afford private rentals. Private rentals are £200 more than LHA in this area. Because I am depressed, and am finding it difficult coping, i was referred to community mental health. This is a team of social workers. Including a guy who helped with housing. That led to a big fall in trust on my part in anything. The housing guy told me to relax, he'd make sure i was given housing. He told me he 'had gone to panel, got an agreement for me to be given 'B' banding which would be a guarantee of housing when bidding. Housing say there were no panels at the time he said he'd attended one. He told me I'd be in housing by end of July. But by end of June he phoned to say I needed a possession order (at that stage LL hadn't even given me a possession order but I kept talking to him about this as I was wondering how I could be being told so many different things). After that I went back to my social worker and said how could this be happening. I walked out in shock at the way he talked to me. When I asked a supervisor to read my notes, it seems as if all my notes said I would never be rehoused without a S21.., but face to face this housing guy was quite different. I was treated like I'd made the conversations up even though when he said I would be rehoused by July, there was a student there as well. I hadn't. Honestly I hadn't. I still don't understand how this debacle could happen. I know it stretches the imagination. I stopped allowing the LL's to do viewings based on what this housing guy said because it caused me such a lot of pain getting the house 'show room ready'. I thought I was going to be offered social housing soon. When I talked about the stress caused by the housing process.., he seemed to understand and be able to do something about it. Obviously I was wrong to believe this. He never even went to panel. I am still Band D. The highest band when bidding I can hope for is C.., after I am deemed homeless and a bailiffs warrant has been served (the housing guy wasn't even right about the procedure in his final phone call when he said I would be changed to band B when I had a possession order, the council only ups priority when you have a bailliffs warrant and you have days to move out). Onchy (thank you) did refer to NHS and Community Care Act, I'm not sure, but I think it is under that I had a carers assessment. I have a carers support worker, through Carers First who are appointed to do the assessments in my area. She's recommended me to two charities that don't work in the area I live in. She was the one that suggested to my son's social worker that maybe SS's could pay for him to have a support worker 3 hours a week as respite. So she did help. Now she just says 'sorry its so tough, I don't know what I can do'. It wasn't a magic wand. There's so many agencies involved, IASK (who are going to help me with my younger son as his school are brickwalling me as far as his support needs are concerned) but they also told me a couple of wrong things. You get hopeful then find out its not going to help because of some clause or other. My son's social worker who is trying her best but can't help with education, housing, who won't see the big picture.., carers support worker who has now given up, long email chains with both of my son's education places.., going no where, Shelter who tell me there's nothing I can do about the housing situation except argue for not shared lettings emergency accommodation. And I am trying to keep the house clean, do blood sugars hourly and stop peaks and spikes in my blood sugars, get food, cook it, look after my two sons, deal with an ex who is like a child at times, pack up, do research, communicate with all these people, write emails, etc etc. I'm exhausted and out of options. And worse, none of it has done much good, certainly iwth housing.., I'm just more aware of how there's no where to turn. I feel like I've tried everything I can think of, chased after everything I've found as a possibility, but people are playing games with me. I Know how it looks, I know I must seem to be crazy. But I am saying honestly what has happened. Sorry about the really long post. I needed to explain things a bit more. I think I am a gonna. I think my sons are going to end up in care. I don't want it that way but I don't have anything left to fight with. And it seems like there is no way of changing the procedure based on need that the council won't listen to. Its bad. [/QUOTE]
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