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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
8 Recommendation 1st Report - England’s Homeless Childre… Rejected

Require Government strategy to end family placements in shared temporary accommodation within six weeks.

The Government’s forthcoming strategy on ending homelessness must set out a clear plan to end placements of families in temporary accommodation with shared facilities, starting by reducing and eliminating placements of over six weeks. (Recommendation, Paragraph 47) Out-of-area temporary accommodation

Government response. The government rejected the recommendation to end placements of families in temporary accommodation with shared facilities, stating it does not agree such placements are never appropriate, but committed to reducing the use of emergency accommodation and eliminating B&Bs for families …
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
21 Conclusion 1st Report - England’s Homeless Childre… Rejected

Re-freezing Local Housing Allowance rates risks undermining homelessness funding and increasing costs.

We are also concerned that the Government’s decision to re-freeze Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates from April 2025 will undermine the impact of additional homelessness grant funding. We have seen compelling evidence that this is a false economy. Re-freezing LHA rates is likely to leave many families unable to afford …

Government response. The government justified its decision regarding Local Housing Allowance rates by outlining factors considered for 2025/26, reiterating its broader housing support spending, and highlighting other funding for homelessness prevention, implicitly rejecting the committee's concern about the re-freeze.
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…