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Simon Community Scotland Helps Tackle Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Submitted by: Bob Doris, Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 27 July 2020
  • Motion reference: S5M-22317

That the Parliament congratulates the Glasgow-based charity, Simon Community Scotland, and its partners, staff, volunteers and donors on helping keep 2,500 people safe during the lockdown; acknowledges that, four months on from the start of the lockdown, they have not just put a roof over people's heads, but have also helped many people transform their lives, often for the first time, and that 156,000 meals have been served; understands that, in the first 14 days of lockdown, rough sleeping was virtually eradicated from Glasgow and Edinburgh; acknowledges the Scottish Government funding awarded to organisations such as Simon Community Scotland at the start of the lockdown to prevent rough sleeping and for the purchase of hotel accommodation; supports the ongoing commitment from the Scottish Government to find pathways to suitable accommodation post-lockdown, and the re-establishment of the Homelessness & Rough Sleeping Action Group to recommend specific proposals to this end, and believes that, within this approach, Simon Community Scotland will have an important and ongoing role to play.


Supported by: Fulton MacGregor, Ruth Maguire, Gillian Martin, Joan McAlpine, Stuart McMillan, Stewart Stevenson, Sandra White