Following a judgment in a case involving Lancashire County Council, the watchdog said that, even in emergency cases, placing homeless young people in bed and breakfast accommodation represents a breach of statutory guidance.
The warning comes after an LGO investigation into a case where Lancashire's children’s services placed a vulnerable teenager with behavioural problems in B&B accommodation.
The decision to place him in a B&B was taken after he was bailed from police custody, with the court directing that he should "live and sleep as directed by the council".
As no family members were willing or able to take him in, the council’s children’s services department placed him in public B&B accommodation where he stayed for five days, without a new assessment of his needs being carried out.
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