Shelter Scotland’s Building Hope route map

The motion

That the Parliament notes the publication of Shelter Scotland’s Building Hope: A Route Map to Ending the Use of Unsafe and Harmful Temporary Accommodation for Children, which sets out the action needed during 2027 to deliver on the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government commitment to ending the use of unsafe and harmful temporary accommodation for children; notes that the number of children in temporary accommodation has more than doubled over the past decade to a record high of 10,715, while breaches of the Unsuitable Accommodation Order in households with children have tripled to 1,310 since 2021-22; recognises that households with children are spending longer in temporary accommodation, with couples with children now spending an average of 406 days there, and families where the lead applicant is a person of colour spending even longer; agrees that no child should spend this long without a permanent home, or in accommodation that doesn’t meet their physical, social, emotional and developmental needs, and calls on the Scottish Government to deliver the actions outlined in the route map, including increasing investment in the Affordable Housing Supply Programme, targeting further funding at the acquisition of family-sized homes and adequately resourcing local authorities to fulfil their statutory homelessness duties, so no more childhoods are lost to homelessness.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Green 6 Lab 2

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No contribution in the Official Report cites S7M-02031 by reference.