One month after release from Prison Abdul is homeless as he has no recourse to public funds
Anyone I talk to, they only talk about waiting for deportation, but I'm a disabled person
I need help.I got out of prison in August. I am going to be homeless from a hostel and I am unwell with MS. I don't have any money.I have nowhere to go, my Mum passed away a long time ago and without parents I have no home and no family. Only an aunt and an uncle who live in London.
He contacts Adult Social Care connects and later his social worker arranges payment to the hostel
Abdul's Hostel
I feel connected to my local community because I have no problem speaking to people and having a joke, and I would be willing to spend the last two pounds in my pocket to feed someone who needs it
I don’t feel I had the right amount of choice and control over the support provided to me or right amount of information to make decisions about my support, they explained nothing to me
I need emergency accommodation where I can live with my girlfriend so she can support me. This would help me to be as independent as possible
I don’t live in a home which is accessible and designed so that I can be as independent as possible because the place where I am now is absolutely horrible. If I were a dog they would treat me better than this.
I don’t feel I have care and support that enables me to live as I want to, as a unique person with skills, strengths and personal goals
The housing authority cannot help Abdul because he has no recourse to public funds
The Immigration Service and Citizen's Advice told me to ask my Social Worker to help me find a solicitor, and he said it wasn't his job.
I feel that the Council could at least find me a bedsit. I'm disabled, and there are lots of empty houses. I can't be in the street, because the cold affects me too badly.
I used to work all day in the grill section of a kitchen. Now I have difficulties with depression and MS.
They need to explain to people and respect them as human. Why do they withdraw support and say I have to make a new application. And why do they tell me to fund it myself?
My girlfriend is my carer but she moved out when I was imprisoned. Now I've been released my rent support has been withdrawn and I'm now in a single room in a hostel.They say I have to apply again to be housed by myself without my carer
I phoned the Social Worker three times, but was told it's not their job to find me a solicitor. In Hertfordshire they gave me lists of solicitors through citizen's Advice. Essex has given me only one e-mail, and I have to sort it out myself.
I have very poor health and have had no help from solicitors or the Immigration Service