A HOUSING body has accused the SNP Scottish government of “tinkering round the edges of the housing emergency” as it gathers for its annual conference in Edinburgh.

The comments come from the chief executive of Homes for Scotland Jane Wood after a year which has seen nine Scottish local authorities — including Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow — declare a housing emergency as numbers people homeless or living in temporary accommodation sky-rocket across the country.

Official government statistics show numbers of children in temporary accommodation jump from 4,155 in March 2014, to a record 9,860 in September 2023, while numbers assessed as homeless rose by a staggering 10 percent in the year between 2021-22 and 2022-23.