No room to play - homeless children

By Barbara Miller, Nursery World, 20 July 2000

The run-down bed-and-breakfast hotel in a grim Glasgow backstreet near Govan has been the home of four-year-old Mark, his mother Pat and her partner Robert, for the past three weeks.

The run-down bed-and-breakfast hotel in a grim Glasgow backstreet near Govan has been the home of four-year-old Mark, his mother Pat and her partner Robert, for the past three weeks. The family turned up at Glasgow City Council's housing department, declaring themselves homeless, after having to leave their flat when drunken neighbours began smashing it up and threatening them, Robert says. Now the three share a cramped room, scarcely 10...

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