Of the families with children the council has put up in bed and breakfasts, this is the share who have been stuck there longer than six weeks — the legal limit for housing families in B&Bs. B&Bs mean shared bathrooms, no kitchen, and nowhere for kids to do homework, which is why the law says six weeks maximum. A high number means the council is routinely breaking that limit; low (ideally zero) means families are moved on quickly as the rules require.
| name | bnb_families_over_limit_share |
|---|---|
| dataset | 06-hclic-temporary-accommodation |
| kind | constructed |
| type | ratio |
| unit | ratio (0–1) |
| grain | local authority (England) |
| role | outcome |
| source | ta_bnb_children_over_6wk ÷ ta_bnb_total (TA1 cols 9 and 7) |
| period | Quarter-end snapshot, 31 March 2026 (Q4 FY2025-26); quarterly series from 2018 Q2; same columns in 202512_revised and 2024-25 annual files |
| missingness | Inherited from inputs: exclude England/region rows; treat suppressed/imputed values as missing, not zero; use the same LA code vintage on both sides of any cross-dataset join (reorganised councils change codes); inputs carry the H-CLIC rounding/imputation caveats |
| score_note | Sharpest legal-breach efficiency ratio, but near-duplicate of the raw 6wk count and unstable on small B&B bases. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Share of the council's B&B caseload that is families resident beyond the statutory 6-week limit — how much of its B&B use breaches the rules. Any material value is a legal-compliance concern, not just an efficiency one. Very unstable where B&B counts are small and rounded.