The street count system is not working, and people do not trust it. When they see the increasing number of
people sleeping on our streets but the statistics say the numbers are going down, something is wrong and the Government need to review it.
Despite Labour-led Brighton & Hove City Council creating 50 new rough sleeper move-on beds and the country’s first 365-day emergency shelter, hundreds still remain on our streets and in our emergency accommodation every night, and it is costing lives. Five people have died in two months at one local emergency accommodation. The staff of another emergency accommodation call the basement room the “suicide room.”