Councils are housing an extra secondary school’s worth of homeless children each month, placing fresh pressure on budgets for temporary accommodation, new research has found.
A study by the Local Government Association (LGA) revealed that the number of homeless children councils have had to house in temporary accommodation has increased by more 37% over the last three years.
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