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Morning Briefing: Scottish councils paid £660m for temporary accommodation

Scottish councils have spent well over half a billion pounds in the past five years on temporary accommodation for homeless people. 

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Scottish investigative outlet The Ferret has obtained figures showing that local authorities north of the border spent £660m in five years on hotels, hostels and B&Bs for homeless people.

Almost a third of this, it said, was spent by councils on private accommodation, including hotels or privately owned flats.

The Times reports that students at the school at the base of the Grenfell Tower have received their A-level results, with almost two-thirds receiving A* to B, and an overall pass rate of nearly 100%. This was despite many classes being held on a temporary site a mile away while the school was unusable following the fire.


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Elsewhere in the capital, according to This is Local London, the government’s new Social Housing Green Paper has met with a frosty reception from the leader of Greenwich Council.

Across the Irish Sea, the Irish News has a story detailing the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) with a local housing dispute.

The Belfast-based paper reports that the party, whose MPs help prop up Theresa May’s government, offered support to a woman who wanted a specific house in north Belfast a week before the original resident of that house was forced out by a criminal gang.

The DUP has hit back in the Belfast Telegraph. Although it admits that one of its legislative Assembly members had emailed the Northern Irish Housing Executive on the woman’s behalf,

the party denies any resident of that the property had been subject to intimidation. Intimidatory behaviour is said to have forced six families to leave their homes in north Belfast recently.

Meanwhile, Leeds City Council is preparing to buy the sites it needs for a huge development around a new dual carriageway, intended to deliver 5,000 new homes.

The Yorkshire Evening Post’s coverage of the plans includes opposition from the local Conservatives, who question the use of public money for the compulsory purchase orders.

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