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Homeless centre is working
• We write in response to the front page article ‘Clergy Blasts Asbos’, last week. We recognise, as stated by Father Nicholas Wheeler, that the Spectrum centre works incredibly hard to deliver invaluable services to Camden’s homeless.
However, we contest the statement that it is understaffed and that the staff are exhausted, and the subsequent implication that the service is thus not working.
While more funding would be welcome, the centre and its staff provides an essential and broad range of support to more than 200 street homeless every week.
The comprehensive range of services include immediate support for rough sleepers, primary health care, housing and benefit advice, dependency and detox services and most importantly a place where the voice and concerns of homeless people can be heard. The centre provides socially excluded people with a friendly and inclusive place where they can be part of the community.
Spectrum forms a concerted effort by the council, the Novas Group who manages the centre and voluntary and central government initiatives to support homeless people, as well as to offer pathways out of such lifestyles.
Courage Oye
Housing and Support Area Manager
Novas Group
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