Coventry council used Airbnbs to house ‘vulnerable’ teenage boy accused of rape | Social care

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1. ” after police officers decided to take no further action following three accusations of rape.”

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   Should have accused him of calling a cop a Lesbian Grandma or dressing up as a terrorist for Halloween.

2. Name and shame that children’s home, alongside the Council.

3. My local council spent a ridiculous amount of money buying a residential property and converting it to house physically disabled children in the care system who needed around the clock care. As soon as it was finished they moved in asylum seekers. The children who were supposed to move to the facility had to remain in foster care at additional cost to the council.

4. *A teenage boy who has been accused of multiple rapes was housed in Airbnbs by a local authority after regulated accommodation providers said it would be too risky for them to house him.*

   *Airbnbs and other temporary accommodation have been deployed because no secure placement can be found anywhere in England that is prepared to accommodate the child, who self-harms, makes weapons, assaults staff members, damages property and has been taken to hospital after expressing suicidal thoughts. He has been arrested on numerous occasions.*

   Things must be really bad right now if the best they could do for a young person with this many problems is a air b&b. Clearly not only a risk to others, but a risk to himself as well.

5. the uk leadership is completely corrupt, it’s quite sad.

6. This is nothing new, holiday lets and homes have been used for years

7. An Airbnb two doors down was used for such purposes recently.

   The first I knew of it, there were young men walking on my back garden walls and throwing eggs at my property. I called the police. They, too, were later described by the landlord as being “vulnerable” and “from the council”.