It’s a hard situation , there are genuine homeless people that have had a tragic life changing situation occur , people that have mental health issues , suffer from depression , run aways from oppressive family then professional beggars that take advantage of people’s generosity to people in hard situations.highlighted recently in the media with Prince Harry’s wedding , these guys have 2 mobile phones latest branded clothes and have homes to go back to but unfortunately take advantage of the general public to feed their drug addictions
This then effects peoples perceptions of homeless people ,generally this is picked up from the media ( dailymail reports a lot on this topic) tends to turn a few people to class all homeless people in the same camp.
Personally when the winter months are here and frozen nights I go up to homeless people if I cross their paths , guys that are not begging and leave them £5 , you don’t see the professional beggars out when it’s cold .
If this is a stunt it helps interaction as a lot of homeless people suffer from lonliness and a simple chat helps , but then it’s a minefield as a few suffer from mental health issue problems which with good intentions approaching them can back fire sometimes 🙄the average banksy buyer does not care about these situations even with woh project and the meaning behind it to educate people, it’s just buy,buy,buy ,profit to be made .
I just Read the other thread with people excited over banksy postcards ?
Dismaland ,people paying for cardboard fishfingers?

Just a snapshot of general thoughts could have an umbrella of reasonings but would clog up this thread.

Agree that all above reasonings I mentioned can lead to drug misuse or be part of the cause. but can also have those issues without drugs causing them or leading to their use so separation is valid until you access each individual case instead of assuming or generalising just because they present one of the traits mentioned


It would be wrong to assume every person with mental health issues abuses drugs?
Or people suffering from depression leads to substance misuse ?

.

Going a bit off track here 🙄
Understand your views will be a bit hardened as of your job role.
What is this thread about again? 🙄😃

[/quote]They will give you a “thank you”. And that should be more than enough. [/quote]


does that come with a COA?

And whose fault is that?  
I think the answer to my question is Banksy.
If he really cared about the homeless he would paint a one-off piece and then sell it at Sothebys for millions and give that money to a homeless charity.  It's nothing more than a publicity stunt (if it even took place).

Clearly the first post in this thread was a wind-up, given there's zero evidence of it being true. The "event today" would have been yesterday and has there been a single mention of it beyond this forum? Bit odd to accuse Banksy of orchestrating a publicity stunt for something that didn't happen. 

Well, it's already happened. Except for the Sothebys bit.

banksy-nazi-painting-sells-for-more-than-600000-at-charity-auction

"The painting was auctioned yesterday on behalf of the Housing Works charity, which helps to fund Aids and homelessness projects."

Lots of speculation on this thread, but someone I know pretty well has just sent me this which they were handed by someone after making a donation to someone near London Bridge....

Doubt it, nice try

No they have not, it's been reduced massively. As someone whose partner works for the probation service and has had mental health issues... I can tell you that comment is absolute bollox.

Research by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) found that the income of mental health trusts across the UK had fallen since 2011, after taking account of inflation.
In England, 62% of mental health trusts reported a lower income at the end of 2016-17 than they had in 2011-12. Only one trust saw their funding rise in all five financial years, according to official figures.
The total amount of income that mental health trusts received in 2016-17 was £11.829bn - £105m less than in 2011-12 at today’s prices, the RCP reports.
Mental health trusts in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have also seen their budgets cut in real terms.
“It is totally unacceptable that when more and more people are coming forward with mental health problems, trusts are receiving less investment than they did, in some cases, seven years ago,” said RCP president Professor Wendy Burn.
The research carried out in 2015 by BBC News and the online journal Community Care.The study found that mental health trusts in England saw their budgets fall by more than 8% in real terms between 2010-11 and 2014-15 – a reduction worth almost £600m.
Although the majority of mental health trusts received a funding boost last year, budgets have been cut by £105m in real terms since the Conservatives came to power.

Why do you assume that a probation officer (with or without mental health issues) would know how many homeless people have mental health problems, let alone whether there is a causal link between the two?
Who's talking bollox now?

The total amount of income that mental health trusts received in 2016 - 2017
The government recently announced that it “plans“ to increase spending on the NHS in England over the next five years.

I wont believe it until they start appearing on e-bay.

Banksy or not it's very good.