| Comment | There's a few notorious places like this in Glasgow. Many of my patients/clients/service users are in there.
Yep GCC tender to these hotels but conditions are very difficult when you have some of the most vulnerable people in the same place without much support, in a facility that doesn't involve trained staff.
In practice the most important thing to do is to make these places unnecessary - more housing stock and more community support for vulnerable people including addiction and mental health supports/treatments.
However I'm very conscious that GCC have financial issues and the only way to really deal with this is to increase council taxes, which is never a vote winner (though I would happily pay more as a high band resident). |
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