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Homelessness is at its highest level in England since records began and is expected to worsen, according to a scathing investigation by the public spending watchdog into the last governments attempts to tackle the problem.The National Audit Office NAO said that despite a range of measures introduced under Theresa Mays Conservative administration in 2018, homelessness had soared, with record numbers of families now trapped in unsuitable accommodation.A combination of sky-high rents, insecure tenancies, housing benefit cuts and severe shortages o stanley cups f social housing were fuelling the problem, which was costing the taxpayer 拢2.4bn a year and threatening to bankrupt district councils, it said.The NAOs report, published on Tuesday, provides a sobering picture of the scale of the problem inherited by the Labour government, which promised in its general election manifesto to put Britain back on track to ending homelessness .The NAO report findings include: The number of households accepted as homeless by their local council has risen by more than one-fifth over the past stanley mug five years, from 64,080 in the third quarter of 2018-19 to 78,980 in the same period last year, an increase of 23%. Just under 113,000 households, including almost 146,000 children, were living in temporary accommodation in the third quarter of last year, at a cost of 拢1.6bn, up from 83,540 in 2018, a rise of 35%. More than 33,000 households were living in temporary accommodation outside their local area last ye stanley cup ar, a Znbh Three UK Alstom directors held on suspicion of bribery
A woman has admitted giving her terminally ill seven-year-old child a huge dose of morphine to end his suffering more than 40 years ago.Antonya Cooper said her son Hamish had experienced horrendous suffering and intense pain as a result of his stage four cancer and beastly treatment. On Hamishs last night, when he said he was in a lot of pain, I said: Would you like me to remove the pain and he said: Yes please, mama, Cooper, 77, told BBC Radio Oxford. And through his Hickman Catheter, I gave him a large dose of morphine that did quietly end his life. Cooper, from Abingdon, Oxford, made the admission to help stanley us efforts to change the law on assisted dy stanley mug ing. Helping someone to die is illegal in England, but both Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have promised to give parliamentary time to debate the issue.In 2015, MPs rejected moves to allow assisted dying by 330 votes to 118. But support for change has grown significantly both among MPs and the general public. Opinion polls have shown 75% of the public back legalisati stanley polska on of assisted dying.Cooper is terminally ill herself, and said her diagnosis had reinforced her views in assisted dying. We dont do it to our pets. Why should we do it to humans she said.Hamish was diagnosed at five years old with neuroblastoma, a rare cancer that mostly affects children. He was initially given a prognosis of three months.After 16 months of cancer treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital, his life was extended but he was left in great pain, his