In today’s lesson, we researched various different ideas, in order to get as much research on different topics as possible, I researched into Homelessness, James researched Domestic Abuse and Cel researched Drink Driving, Oliver was absent from this lesson.
The research i found :
You should be considered homeless if you have no home in the UK or anywhere else in the world available for you to occupy. You don't have to be sleeping on the streets to be considered homeless.
You should be considered homeless if you have no home in the UK or anywhere else in the world available for you to occupy. You don't have to be sleeping on the streets to be considered homeless.
- On average homeless people die at just 47 years old.
- Homeless people are 13 times more likely to be a victim of violence.
- The main cause of homelessness is relationship breakdown.
- For every rough sleeper, there are around 100 people in hostels and 1100 households in overcrowded accommodation
- 7581 people slept rough on London's streets last year.
Situations that the government should consider you to be homeless if;
• You have no home in the UK or anywhere else in the world
• You have no home where you can live together with your immediate family
• You can only stay where you are on a very temporary basis
• You don’t have permission to live where you are
• You have been locked out of home and you aren’t allowed back
• You can’t live at home because of violence or abuse or threats of violence or abuse which are likely to be carried out against you or someone else in your household
• It isn’t reasonable for you to stay in your home for any reason (for example, if your home is in very poor condition)
• You can’t afford to stay where you are
• You live in a vehicle or boat and you have nowhere to put it.
Some Causes and Consequences of homelessness may be:
-looking at people's turning points into homelessness in the UK, found that reasons most often cited by male participants were relationship breakdown, substance misuse, and leaving an institution (prison, care, hospital etc.). For homeless women, the most common causes were physical or mental health problems and escaping a violent relationship. There are also problems in wider society that can contribute towards homelessness. These structural causes might include a lack of affordable housing; high levels of poverty, unemployment or worklessness; the way in which the benefits system operates; or the way social housing is rationed.
-Whatever the causes of an individual's homelessness, the consequences can be brutal. Homelessness damages people's capability through loss of skills, through an inability to think about employment whilst worrying about housing, and through their health becoming impaired whilst homeless. Homelessness also damages people's resilience, self-esteem and self-confidence. One in four ex-homeless people also find themselves unable to sustain a tenancy - loneliness and isolation are the main causes, often compounded by lack of option where they can live. Therefore it is important to build people's skills, confidence and capability to empower them to feel in control of their lives again and so they are able to move on from homelessness for good.
Websites I used for research:
After doing this research, myself, James and Cel decided to try and devise a simple and short (so that later we can easily add Ollie into it) movement piece based on Child Abuse. We were originally going to have both me and James as the parents of Cel, and show the abuse through our movements and controlling of hers, this looked good as our actions were mirrored.
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