Homelessness – “The government’s response does little to inspire confidence”

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Homelessness has commented on the government’s response to report, England’s Homesless Children: the crisis in temporaryaccommodation. In a scathing statement Chair Flo Eshalomi

“Last year, a record 127,000 households faced homelessness, with devastating impacts to their health, work and education. When so many families are facing this crisis, the government’s response is disappointingly lacking in substantive detail in several key areas.

In our report we called on the government to publish its strategy on ending homelessness by July 2025. Given the urgency of the issue and the need to involve homelessness organisation and local authorities in tackling the temporary accommodation crisis, it is disappointing that the government is only willing to commit to ‘later this year for publication of the strategy. The committees recommendation for the government to provide an update on the work of the inter-Ministerial Group on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping has also been rejected.

Given the purported role of the inter-Ministerial Group, the government’s response on the issue does little to inspire confidence that the Group is making the progress needed to ensure the homeless strategy is truly effective.”