LIVING on the streets is bad enough, but when winter comes it can be unbearable.

So it is good that City of York Council has joined forces with Arc Light and York Mind to launch a programme called Making Every Adult Matter to support some of York’s most vulnerable people.

The programme will run alongside two similar schemes introduced last year which have provided 1,842 extra bed nights in then city.

This programme alone will not solve the problem, but anything that gets people off the streets on a freezing night has to be welcome.