Question follow-through · 121467
Homelessness: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that local councils provide homelessness assistance to children to prevent them being forced to sleep rough.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that local councils provide homelessness assistance to children to prevent them being forced to sleep rough.
24 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
I wrote to council leaders and chief executives on Wednesday 25 February setting out local authorities’ legal duties to homeless families with children under the Housing Act 1996 and Children Act 1989. This letter made it clear that a child should never b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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