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Homeless

Has anybody when going to Sainsbury's Werter Rd, actually looked at the man who sits on a suitcase by the cab rank. Yesterday I spoke to him as he is there so often, he doesn't ask people for money, he sits quietly. I asked him where he sleeps he said behind Sainsbury's, he had a blanket. But if you look at him, the whites of his eyes are completely red. His face is filthy, he needs help, he didn't sound foreign and he has been around for ages. Do the Social Services not help people like this, as he clearly needs help or he might go blind. For the first time I actually gave him a few bob, he is very quiet, I asked him where the other man who used to sit with him was, he said he had moved on.

Barbara Stevens ● 30d8 Comments

You might also find this useful for someone:https://clch.nhs.uk/services/homeless-health

Philippa Bond ● 30d

But YOU are already ON the internet when you are on this website: www.putneysw15.com.The website I gave you for the Streetlink can be used to report those sleeping rough and in need of help and attention.  (Not emergency of course as that is 999.)www.thestreetlink.org.uk    Tel:  0300 500 0914Streetlink are also on Facebook and on X.  There is also St Mungo's No Second Night Out:  0203 856 6000Spear also work in Wandsworth (www.spearlondon.org.uk):Streetlink will alert the appropriate Outreach Team.Email:spearoutreach@spearlondon.org    Tel:  020 8404 1481You don't need to use a telephone.  Many people have neither phones nor internet.

Philippa Bond ● 30d

Philippa, weirdo, I spent over 1/2 an hour before I went out ringing Social Services. Got to a young man , who then gave me another phone number that sent me back to the same answer machine with the same options. They also want homeless street people to put on line. How fing clever is that if they don't have a phone for internet. Your a bl==dy know it all that knows nothing.

Barbara Stevens ● 30d

So why do you bother to come on here if you aren't going to do something constructive about it?

Philippa Bond ● 30d

Alexander, Philippa, thinks and wishes she lived in Putney, but doesn't. Philippa obviously hasn't seen the poor man, we already had the other man die recently who was a regular to Putney for years very sad.

Barbara Stevens ● 30d

Philippa: Missing the point, as usual.

Alexander MacLeod ● 30d

https://www.evolvehousing.org.uk/learn-and-share/help-someone-who-is-homeless/Remember sometimes people don't want or don't want to accept help.

Philippa Bond ● 30d

I have noticed him too and he's obviously a poor case.  I would have thought Police on patrol might pass by occasionally and maybe speak to him, but to be honest I haven't seen a policeman in that area for ages. Somebody attached to a welfare body could help, or even a Sainsbury person, but he is a fair way from their entrance and they probably don't feel involved.

Alexander MacLeod ● 30d