Senior Government figures believe levels of child homelessness will be how the public judges its record on the housing crisis. Photograph: Getty Images
Local authorities are being told to put long-term homeless families with children to the top of the queue for social housing, as part of a concerted Government effort to reduce the number of children in emergency accommodation.
Senior Government figures now believe levels of child homelessness will be how the public judges its record on the housing crisis.
It is understood there is a view within the Government that it serves the greater good to lift children out of homelessness, ahead of the single adults who
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