is it against the law for DS and DD1 to share a room??

[SparklyGothKat]

Was looking at the alloction points systems on the council website for my MIL and saw that you get points for a child who is over 8 but sharing a room with a child of the opposite sex. DS is 8 and dd1 is 5, and they share a room, dd2 has the other room (atm anyway, when we move they will have their own rooms) they share because they both wake regularly because of spasms due to CP and I didn't want dd2 woken regularly. Also DS likes to share with his sister. My MIL thinks that its against the law and that social services can be very funny about it. Am I breaking some law??

It's not against the law but it does count towards getting you a new (council) house if you need more bedrooms.

oh right not a problem for us then, being moved soon anyway

Definatly not it only helps with the points as edam says.

no its not against the law.
you would get extra points allocation though.

someone told me it goes on the age of the girl, you won't get moved to a house with another bedroom until she turns 10. That may just be our county, though.

Even if the council rehouse you its up yo u what the sleeping arrangments are.

Its simply that councils and housing associations won't give you points for overcrowding if kids sharing are under a certain age. Its the same as getting points for other reasons. If you want to put all your beds in one room and put the toys in the other it up to you there are no laws that have anything to do with this.

Most councils do have an age where girls and boys should not share a room - not sure what it is though. All indications point to 10yrs and older

I thought that MIl was talking out of her ar*e again anyway I am being moved into a 4 bed soon, so its not a biggy for me, just thought that Social services might come a-knocking

My DD and DS share a room, we have a 2 bedroomed house. We were told we were not entitled to a 3 bedroomed house until DD was 12 and DS 10. We are putting in right to buy next year so hopefully we won't have to wait that long as we plan to do a loft conversion once the right to buy has gone through.

Luckily for us they love sharing and would not like being on their own at night.

We decorated the bedroom with the same paper but in DD's side we put a Bratz border and on DS's half of the room we put a Scooby Doo border. They seem quite happy to have their own "half" of the bedroom.