Of the households the council houses in temporary accommodation, this is how many include children (or a pregnant woman) — the families for whom emergency housing is most damaging, disrupting school, friendships and family life. A high number means many families with kids are living in stopgap housing; a low number means the crisis mostly touches single adults, or is simply smaller.
| name | ta_households_with_children |
|---|---|
| dataset | 06-hclic-temporary-accommodation |
| kind | extracted |
| type | count |
| unit | households |
| grain | local authority (England) |
| role | outcome |
| source | data/Statutory_Homelessness_Detailed_Local_Authority_Data_202603.ods, sheet TA1, col 5 'Households in TA with childrenTotal' |
| 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 | Small counts rounded and some values suppressed; some LAs miss or partially complete H-CLIC returns and are imputed/flagged by MHCLG (see Notes sheet); previous-quarter figures routinely revised. |
| score_note | Family slice of the caseload, largely duplicating children-total context. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Households in TA at quarter end that contain dependent children. Family TA is the most sensitive part of the caseload, subject to extra statutory limits (notably on B&B use). Snapshot measure, subject to the same rounding/imputation caveats as the total.