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Dozens of youth organisations are backing a campaign for ministers to develop a plan to prevent homelessness for 136,000 young people in the UK.

Dozens of youth organisations are backing a campaign for ministers to develop a plan to prevent homelessness for 136,000 young people in the UK.

Campaigners want ministers to upgrade guidance to councils providing for families in temporary accommodation.

Landlords face court battles to get their properties back

Summary Patricia Leatham moved back into the council house where she grew up when her mother became ill in 2017, to look after her as a full-time caregiver. When her mother died in 2019, Patricia and her then 14-year-old son, “Clarence,” were evicted into homelessness as her name was not on her mother’s tenancy contract. She applied for support from London’s Waltham Forest Council, which placed her in temporary accommodation where they lived for just under two years.

More than £5million in charges for temporary accommodation for homeless people is owed to Glasgow City Council.

HOMELESS people across Scotland owe councils more than £34 million in “highly questionable“ charges for temporary accommodation, according to…