Shelter report about overcrowding: need your thoughts asap please!

[GeraldineMumsnet]

Need your thoughts on children sharing and what age it's no longer ok for children of different gender to share.

Got about 10 minutes!!

Report here

Thanks in advance
MNHQ

[Tortington]

its just pants for one of the richest ountries in the world to have an acceptable policy of children using the kitchen to sleep in and one toilet for MORE than ten people

i personally know of a family with 9 people in a small small 3 bed house - most of these are teenagers - full adults by all purposes - sharing one bathroom and kitchen facilities.

the teenager boys are sleeping in the living room on a cheap blow up matress that deflates - the eldest also has back problems.

this is two families. one family came to live with the other after running from a death threat.

the existing children have been displaced - and THEIR HEALTH needs are NOT TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION when applying for the second family to be re-housed.

are you following me?

so the second family moves in

this causes health detriments to the first family

that is not taken into consideration by any process

[Tortington]

and not a word about alternative accomodation mentioned in a year

[Tortington]

i have also heard of a 13 YO BOY who had to share the bed with his DYING mother in a bedsit

i mean its adequate isn't it?

[expatinscotland]

'and don't think david camerons lot will be much different.'

not forgetting that labour did nothing to reverse Thatcher's policy of selling off council/social housing stock.

[FAQtothefuture]

top breaking news I've seen on the BBC website is that the corby families have won their legal battle over birth defects caused by the clearing up the closed down Steel works.

Woohoo.