FOI request (FOIR-440281831)

Homeless Children

Requested Thu 28 July 2022
Responded Tue 02 August 2022

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please provide:

1. The number of households assessed by your local authority as being owed a prevention or relief duty due to risk of homelessness in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 (or as recent as figures are held).

2. The number of households in the answer to (1) who had dependent children in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 (or as recent as figures are held).

3. The number of children (in total) in households owed a homelessness prevention duty in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 (or as recent as figures are held).

4. The number of households with children placed in temporary accommodation by your authority at the end of 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 (if figures held).

5. The number of households with children under five placed in temporary accommodation by your authority at the end of 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 (if figures held).

6. The number of children under five (in total) placed in temporary accommodation by your authority at the end of 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 (if figures held).

7. The number of households with children under five placed in temporary accommodation by your authority at the end of 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 who have been in temporary accommodation for more than six weeks.

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Response

Q1. This information is available on the .gov.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness

Q2. This information is available on the .gov.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness

Q3. This information is available on the .gov.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness

Q4. This information is available on the .gov.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness

>Q5.

2018/19 = 33

2019/20 = 32

2020/21 = 40

2021/22 = 87

Q6.

2018/19 = 45

2019/20 = 42

2020/21 = 52

2021/22 = 110

Q7.

2018/19 = 24

2019/20 = 27

2020/21 = 34

2021/22 = 77