Over Half of West Midlands Teachers Report Homeless Children in Their Schools Sunday, December 28, 2025 homelessness education children westmidlands shelter teachers childwelfare housingcrisis mentalhealth socialservices More than half of teachers in the West Midlands have worked at schools where at least one pupil was homeless in the past 12 months, according to new research by the charity Shelter. Out of 7,127 surveyed state school teachers … Read More
Homeless Birmingham Father Opens Up About Missing Daughter Amid Battle with Past Addiction Saturday, December 27, 2025 homelessness addiction birmingham roughsleeping recovery outreach charity youth housing support A Birmingham father sleeping rough in the city centre has shared the emotional toll of being separated from his daughter for years. Stu, 43, lived with his ex-partner and their daughter in Kingstanding until late 2018. … Read More
Mapped: Over 100 People Sleeping Rough on Birmingham Streets Face Life-Threatening Winter Conditions Thursday, December 11, 2025 homelessness roughsleeping birmingham winter cold housingfirst policy homeless shelter crisis As temperatures drop below freezing this winter, more than 100 people in Birmingham are forced to sleep rough on the streets, confronting life-threatening conditions during the festive season. New data reveals that an … Read More
I Slept Rough in a Birmingham Car Park and It Opened My Eyes to a Harsh Reality Saturday, December 6, 2025 homelessness roughsleeping charity birmingham awareness stbasils bigsleepout youth shelter struggle At 2:30 a.m., the temperature plummeted, and rain poured down relentlessly onto the fragile cardboard shelter I had built. Its persistent thudding grew louder as water began seeping through the cracks, soaking me and … Read More
Suspected murderer in 2005 Jennifer Kiely case identified after 20 years Wednesday, December 3, 2025 dna murder jenniferkiely sussex keithdowbekin forensics homelessness policing investigation criminology More than two decades after Jennifer Kiely was tragically killed, new DNA evidence has identified a suspect in her murder case. Jennifer, 35, was found by firefighters at a seafront shelter in Sussex in the early hours of … Read More
Birmingham Family Left Homeless After Devastating House Fire Thursday, November 27, 2025 birmingham homelessness housefire fundraiser family firesafety yardley communitysupport emergency recovery A Birmingham family has been left homeless just weeks before Christmas after a devastating fire tore through their rented home in Yardley. The blaze, which started shortly after midday on Sunday, November 23, ravaged the … Read More