Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Homeless families and children in Manchester are being put up in bed and breakfast accommodation ‘with no idea who’s next door’, the city’s homelessness chief has said.
More than a thousand children and their families are being temporarily housed in B&Bs each year at a cost of around £850k to the town hall.
The continued reliance on B&Bs by Manchester council, described as having more homelessness resources than other local authorities, is ‘unusual’ and needs to end ‘as quickly as possible’. READ MORE : The lost families of lockdown That is according to the council’s own director of homelessness, Mohamed Hussein, who has also said that the town hall
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