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Select Committee · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee

Children in Temporary Accommodation

Status: Closed Opened: 31 Oct 2024 Closed: 23 Jul 2025 16 recommendations 8 conclusions 1 report

This short inquiry is scrutinising issues around the quality of temporary accommodation provision and pressures on local authority finances in England. The inquiry considers how children and families in temporary accommodation could be better supported by Government, local authorities, and accommodation providers.

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
1st Report - England’s Homeless Children: The crisis in tem… HC 338 3 Apr 2025 24 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

2 items
19 Recommendation 1st Report - England’s Homeless Childre… Accepted in Part

Publish the strategy on ending homelessness by July 2025 and provide quarterly updates.

The Group should publish its final output, a strategy on ending homelessness, by July 2025—before the summer recess—so that the Government, homelessness organisations, and local authorities have sufficient time to start implementing the strategy and making meaningful progress towards ending homelessness during this Parliament. The Inter- Ministerial Group should continue …

Government response. The government commits to publishing the homelessness strategy later this year, but defers a review of the Inter-Ministerial Group's purpose until after publication, not committing to ongoing quarterly meetings or updates. It also highlights current funding increases and legislative progress …
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
24 Recommendation 1st Report - England’s Homeless Childre… Accepted in Part

Ensure social and genuinely affordable housing comprises a substantial proportion of the 1.5 million homes target.

The Government clearly recognises the scale of the homelessness crisis in England, and we welcome the scale of the Government’s ambition to tackle it. We welcome the Government’s target to deliver 1.5 million new homes during this Parliament, however, as the Minister for Homelessness and Democracy outlined, we must not …

Government response. The government committed to significantly increasing social and affordable housing, with a particular focus on Social Rent homes, backed by an additional £2.8 billion investment, and will outline actions in the forthcoming long-term housing strategy, though it has not yet …
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Oral evidence sessions

2 sessions
Date Witnesses
21 Jan 2025 Penny Hobman · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Rushanara Ali MP · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government View ↗
5 Nov 2024 Chris Hancock · Hastings Borough Council, Councillor Grace Williams · London Councils, Councillor Hannah Dalton · District Councils Network, Dr Laura Neilson · Shared Health Foundation, Emma Haddad · St Mungo's, Francesca Albanese · Crisis, Hannah Courtney-Adamson · Rochdale Borough Council, Rebecca Walker · CARIS Families View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
20 Nov 2024 To cttee Letter from the National Residential Landlords Association to the Chair dated 1…