Temporary accommodation may have been contributory factor in 55 child deaths
by Aine Fox
Mar 04, 2024
3 minutes
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Fifty-five children – mostly aged under one – have died in recent years where living in temporary accommodation has been recorded as a possible contributory factor, campaigners said.
The figure, from the Households in Temporary Accommodation All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) relating to the period from April 1 2019 to March 31 2023, has been branded “a stark indictment of our housing crisis”.
It is up from the figure of 34 in the APPG report last year which covered the period until the
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