Overview

• Abbie Coulthard and her two children have lived in a single hotel room in Liverpool city centre for five weeks with only a kettle and an air fryer to prepare meals.
• Liverpool City Council spent over £21 million last year placing about 1,250 families in temporary hotel and B&B accommodation and faces a bill of £30 million this year.
• The council recently offered Coulthard a home in north Liverpool, but she declined because it would extend her eight-year-old son’s daily travel to school.
• Coulthard’s prescribed oxygen therapy for severe cluster headaches remains undeliverable under current hotel health and safety rules.
• Families in similar situations report cramped rooms with no outdoor play space and inadequate facilities for cooking or sterilising baby equipment.