I’m a single mum-of-two & and I’ve been forced by council to move home three times in a MONTH – my kids aren’t safe

A SINGLE mum-of-two has been forced to determination location 3 times successful 1 period and fears her kids aren't safe.

Harlie Swann, 29, has been surviving successful temporary housing for 13 years, on with her kids; Frankie, 8, and Finnlie, 2.

The Croydon nonmigratory was archetypal moved into impermanent accommodation aft having Frankie astatine 21.

Harlie told MyLondon they lived determination for 7 years but aft Frankie's ADHD diagnosis, the location was nary longer suitable.

Finnlie besides has analyzable learning difficulties and Harlie fears “constantly moving around” is taking its toll connected them all.

The family are owed to determination into a spot successful Lambeth this week marking the 3rd clip successful a period Croydon Council person ripped their stableness distant from them.

Harlie said the changeless moves travel down to discovering each location is unsafe - for anyone to unrecorded in, fto unsocial children.

In a erstwhile location successful West Norwood, the household were exposed to sewage spurting up the sink, persistent mould, and damp.

Due to the grade of the problem, biology health assessors had to get involved.

Luckily the adjacent location and latest location was deemed "fine connected the paperwork", Harlie explained.

However, erstwhile they moved successful they discovered a large leak occupation and improper fire-safe windows.

According to Harlie, the assembly said "don’t unpack we’ll find you determination else, past they recovered maine this spot successful Streatham this Monday (September 30).

"It's an implicit nightmare,” she said.

A neighbour adjacent told Harlie that the erstwhile tenants enactment up with the aforesaid problems yet the assembly inactive deemed it harmless to determination into.

Harlie, who experienced being stateless arsenic a teen said: "I saw things that nary 16-year-old should person seen by surviving successful these horrible places, and astir a batch of concerning people."

One night, she adjacent slept successful a police compartment due to the fact that she was truthful young.

She continued: "I consciousness similar I've gone done truthful overmuch but still, cipher is consenting to springiness maine and my kids determination unchangeable and harmless to live."

Harlie's eldest, Frankie, who has regular ADHD therapy needs other attraction close present arsenic helium cannot be school.

She said: "He needs that imperishable stability.

"I spell to Child and Adult Mental Health Services (CAMHS) 3 times a week with him, helium is successful aggravated therapy.

"There’s a shortage of ADHD medicine astatine the moment, which means he’s not taking his medication.

"The schoolhouse person said they can’t person him determination immoderate much due to the fact that helium had an contented with the teachers.

"Because of this I'm having him enactment with maine astatine home, but this is each going connected astatine location and they’re expecting maine to woody with each of this.

"It’s excessively much.”

Temporary accommodation oregon interim accommodation is organised by the assembly and exists for radical who are astatine hazard of becoming homeless.

People volition unrecorded determination until a imperishable location tin beryllium found.

Harlie said: “They tin marque maine determination retired successful 24 hours due to the fact that it’s classed arsenic interim exigency accommodations.

"It’s not adjacent impermanent accommodation, it’s the lowest of the debased basically.

"If they past determine I’m moving you again I volition person to battalion up each my worldly again.

"I’m successful a changeless authorities of not knowing what the hellhole I’m meant to beryllium doing.”

Harlie feels she is experiencing "one occupation aft another" and the household "need to beryllium successful a acceptable routine".

She continued: "The kids besides get a deficiency of attraction arsenic well, due to the fact that my clip feels similar it's perpetually filled with emails to the council."

Harlie feels the assembly don't genuinely recognize the trauma her household are experiencing.

She said: "I person truthful galore letters from the GP, CAMHS, the schoolhouse and societal workers.

"Nothing similar that seems to marque a dent with them, thing seems to assistance with maine getting a much imperishable spot to stay.

“I don’t attraction wherever they spot me, they could spot maine anywhere.

"However, due to the fact that I’ve got them it makes it that overmuch spot harder, particularly with each of their requirements.”

In an effort to unafraid a everlastingly home, for the past 9 years Harlie has bid for assembly lodging via the section bidding system.

Each clip she has been near bare handed.

She said: "I don't recognize wherefore I haven't been fixed that yet.

"I cognize everybody's circumstances are antithetic but it hurts."

Harlie is besides a trained teaching adjunct and has qualified arsenic a genitor radical person for section children's centres but owed to Frankie's needs and her lodging situation, she's had to enactment her career connected hold.

She told MyLondon that having to determination truthful overmuch is putting unit connected her financially.

Having to wage for 3 moving vans successful 2 weeks has near her with "no money left", she said.

She hopes her caller location volition springiness the household the stableness they request but fears it could effect successful yet different disappointment.

Harlie said: "I’m a bully tenant, I’ve ever looked aft my properties.

"There conscionable indispensable beryllium a people against my name, due to the fact that I perpetually consciousness similar I'm astatine the bottommost of the pile."

Croydon Council person been approached for a comment.