Homeless Connect CEO, Nicola McCrudden, was invited onto UTV Live on 9 August 2022 to discuss recent drug-related deaths in the Belfast city centre.

She made the call for our MLAs to restore the Executive, and to prioritise both policy leadership and sufficient funding for frontline services as well as giving budget certainty to allow longer term planning and to intervene to prevent more people falling into homelessness.

Watch the full half hour bulletin at https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2022-08-10/watch-utv-live-special-programme-on-drugs-crisis 

For more on recent developments on this story, go to https://homelessconnect.org/call-for-greater-resources-to-tackle-drug-related-deaths-on-belfast-streets/