Wednesday 18 May 2022 09:16 AM Ukrainian refugees 'forced out' of UK homes and told to 'find a new sponsor' trends now

Ukrainian families arriving to the UK as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme are increasingly ending up homeless after falling out with their hosts, it has emerged. 

A growing number of refugees are turning up at local councils after being given as little as one day's notice to find new sponsors. 

One woman claims she was told to leave via text, while another British host failed to tell the family she was a strict vegetarian who does not allow meat in the house, before telling the family to leave 'as soon as possible'.

Charities fear the whole system could 'crash' as hosts, most of whom have the best intentions, fail to realise the enormity of the task. 

Many of the families are traumatised, with reports of Ukrainian children dropping to the floor upon hearing loud noises, mistaking them for bombs.  

There are also concerns that there could be a huge pressure to re-house refugees once they have stayed with their host families for the minimum six-month period mandated by the scheme. 

The government is now reportedly working a 're-matching' service to find Ukrainians new sponsors if and when necessary, reports the Observer.  

More than 26,000 Ukrainians have arrived from the eastern European nation via the government's Homes for Ukraine scheme, but many have found themselves at risk after falling out with their hosts, many of whom they connected with on social media. 

One mother, named Olga, and her three-year-old son Nikita, were kicked out of their host's home in Rugby after her toddler scared one of the other children. 

She told the BBC Radio 4 today programme: 'Our kids were playing in the same room and my kid scared her older son. Her kid did not want to let him out of the room.

'She [the host] wrote me a message in the translator and said she was sorry and that she had decided to call the local council and that we would have to leave to find another sponsor.'

Breaking into tears, she added: 'I feel bad for my son. I don't know how long it will take to find a new sponsor.' 

The mother and son are being put up in a hostel by the local council, which said it was looking for a new sponsor family for the pair. 

The government told the BBC that only a small number of Ukrainians were being asked to leave by their sponsors. 

However when it does occur, it places pressure on local councils to re-home them. 

The Local Government Association said there has been a 'concerning increase' in Ukrainians being left homeless.

Chairman John Jameson said:  'We have a homelessness duty to Ukrainian refugees as we would to anyone which means we've got to find them somewhere to stay. 

'Short term that's going to be a hotel but then we need to find a home.' 

It comes as social media is awash with other examples of sponsors dumping their refugee guests. 

One woman claims she was told to leave via text message. 

The 44-year-old economist had come to London via the Homes for Ukrainians scheme. 

She wrote on a Facebook page: 'My sponsor has decided to revoke, unexpectedly, informing me by SMS without any agreement with me... So I am looking for a new sponsor and new accommodation.'

Another post reads: 'Urgent... a Ukrainian family has literally been pushed to the street by their sponsor.' 

One claimed: 'A family in my city are being asked to leave by their hosts,' while another said: 'It's just all gone wrong.' 

'The sponsor smokes in the house all the time, the family is stressed and crying,' another said.

Marta Mulyak, who has hosted several Ukrainian families since the start of the war and is chair of 1st London Plast, a Ukrainian Scout group, told the Guardian the Homes for Ukraine

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