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Over 10,000 children growing up without permanent home
Scottish Labour accuses SNP of ‘catastrophic failures’ in government
two children playing patty cake during their lunch break in the playground of Springfield Primary School in Belfast

MORE than 10,000 children growing up without a permanent home is evidence of the SNP’s “catastrophic failures” in government, Scottish Labour charged today.

Latest Scottish government figures show 40,685 people made homelessness applications in 2023-24 –  4 per cent more than a year earlier and the most since 2011-12.

They also showed that 7 per cent had slept rough within three months of their application and 5 per cent the night before, a rise from 4 and 6 per cent respectively.  

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