Latest Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) temporary accommodation figures show there were 3,020 families with children in either hostels or women’s refuges during the first quarter of 2014.
It represents an increase of 310 on the figure for the same period in 2013, when there were 2,710 families with children in hostels or refuges.
The figure is the highest it has been since the third quarter of 2008, when 3,190 were in this form of temporary accommodation.
The figures show that there were 4,900 households in total in hostels and women’s refuges during the first quarter of the year, up 190 on the previous quarter and a rise of 520 year-on-year.
These latest figures also show an overall increase in the number of those in temporary accommodation, including bed and breakfast hotels.
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