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.