Question reference: S4W-30298
- Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 3 March 2016
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Current status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 17 March 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what actions it is taking to ensure that (a) households containing children and (b) pregnant women are not placed in temporary B&B accommodation.
Answer
The Minister for Housing and Welfare wrote to all local authorities in September 2015, about the issue of households containing children and pregnant women being placed in B&B accommodation.
The letter highlighted that the use of B&B accommodation for these households should only be in exceptional circumstances and for a very short period of time. Local authority responses were encouraging with all clear of the importance attached to minimising or eradicating use of B&B for these households.