My daughter is in her first year at Newcastle. She has a lovely room in halls with her own bathroom. The issue is the communal kitchen and lounge. She is autistic and has some sensory issues and experiences overwhelm when circumstances build up beyond her control. I’d warned her that student have dealt with kitchens could be grim but nothing could have prepared her like living with it. There are 8 of them sharing a kitchen. Both sinks are full with dirty dishes and bits of pasta, rice, soggy cereal, there are rotting vegetables leaking their juices over the worktops, if the bins are full they just keep filling it so there’s food all over the floor. She is loving uni but this three weeks in doesn’t bode well for the rest of the year. She’s living with mainly party animals - no one really like her. She’s making good friends outside of the flat but ‘home’ should be somewhere you can relax not somewhere you dread. She spoke to the accommodation office who said it wasn’t bad enough for an intervention. I’ve since emailed them to enquire about a smaller/ single sex/ quiet flat or even if there is any studio availability which she didn’t really want but might be better in the long run. Just wondering how other people’s YP have dealt with issues like this.