Children in social housing face disadvantage

Growing Up In Social Housing, commissioned by the Tenant Services Authority, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Scottish Government, found that children in social housing score lower in measures of adult health, wellbeing, education, employment and income than those who did not grow up in social housing, and that this gap is widening over time.

Peter Marsh, chief executive of the Tenant Services Authority, said: "This research reinforces the need for social housing policy to be integrated into a wider context with education, childcare and neighbourhood policies. We also need to examine the role of allocation policies as well as new-build policies if we are to recreate the sort of mixed-income communities we saw in post-war social housing."