This compares how many households are stuck in temporary accommodation with how many newly become homeless each year — roughly, how many years' worth of new cases the backlog represents. Think of it as how badly the pipe is blocked: people flow in, but few flow out to settled homes. A high number means households enter emergency housing and stay for years; a low number means the council moves people through quickly.
| name | ta_per_new_duty |
|---|---|
| dataset | 06-hclic-temporary-accommodation |
| kind | constructed |
| type | ratio |
| unit | years (stock/flow) |
| grain | local authority (England) |
| role | outcome |
| source | ta_households_total (TA1 col 2) ÷ (owed_prevention_or_relief × 4) — A1 col 3 annualised, or use the annual file |
| period | Snapshot at 31 March 2026 over annualised FY inflow |
| 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. Annualising one quarter × 4 ignores seasonality — prefer the annual file's inflow where possible. |
| score_note | Novel stock/flow backlog ratio with real move-on signal, but crude and hard to explain. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Rough TA backlog ratio: the standing caseload relative to annual inflow of new statutory duties. Higher values mean slower move-on — households stay in TA longer relative to how fast new duties arrive. A crude stock/flow approximation, not a true duration measure; use alongside TA4 duration data.