Question reference: S6W-01488
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 20 July 2021
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Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 August 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statistics in the publication, Homelessness in Scotland: 2020 to 2021, how many children were in each household that was reassessed as being homeless in each year since 2015-16, also broken down by which of the periods of between one and five years they were previously assessed as being homeless.
Answer
The following tables show a breakdown of the number of children in households reassessed as homeless within one year, between one and two years, between two and three years, between three and four years and between four and five years for the years 2015-16 to 2020-21.
In order for a household with children to be reassessed as homeless all adults on the application must be the same as a previous application and children (any number of) must also have been present on the previous application. It is possible for the number of children to have changed between applications.
Information at individual household level cannot be provided due to data confidentiality.
Number of children in households re-assessed as homeless within 1 year | ||||||
Number of children in household | Year of assessment | |||||
2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | |
0 children | 1,579 | 1,552 | 1,430 | 1,409 | 1,527 | 1,351 |
1 child | 112 | 121 | 144 | 122 | 110 | 74 |
2 children | 60 | 84 | 93 | 63 | 82 | 41 |
3 children + | 44 | 49 | 47 | 64 | 41 | 31 |
Total households | 1,795 | 1,806 | 1,714 | 1,658 | 1,760 | 1,497 |
Number of children in households re-assessed as homeless between 1 and 2 years | ||||||
Number of children in household | Year of assessment | |||||
2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | |
0 children | 929 | 862 | 891 | 891 | 1,049 | 997 |
1 child | 95 | 76 | 80 | 75 | 74 | 71 |
2 children | 45 | 70 | 58 | 57 | 80 | 45 |
3 children + | 41 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 13 |
Total households | 1,110 | 1,011 | 1,036 | 1,038 | 1,209 | 1,126 |
Number of children in households re-assessed as homeless between 2 and 3 years | ||||||
Number of children in household | Year of assessment | |||||
2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | |
0 children | 568 | 573 | 595 | 591 | 615 | 563 |
1 child | 46 | 47 | 59 | 47 | 50 | 44 |
2 children | 45 | 48 | 45 | 54 | 47 | 40 |
3 children + | 30 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 4 |
Total households | 689 | 673 | 710 | 702 | 719 | 651 |
Number of children in households re-assessed as homeless between 3 and 4 years | ||||||
Number of children in household | Year of assessment | |||||
2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | |
0 children | 432 | 401 | 438 | 428 | 416 | 478 |
1 child | 46 | 50 | 41 | 36 | 48 | 26 |
2 children | 38 | 40 | 38 | 32 | 40 | 33 |
3 children + | 26 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 5 |
Total households | 542 | 495 | 524 | 504 | 511 | 542 |
Number of children in households re-assessed as homeless between 4 and 5 years | ||||||
Number of children in household | Year of assessment | |||||
2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | |
0 children | 365 | 356 | 294 | 322 | 331 | 327 |
1 child | 32 | 32 | 36 | 31 | 32 | 19 |
2 children | 23 | 42 | 27 | 38 | 29 | 28 |
3 children + | 26 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
Total households | 446 | 435 | 360 | 398 | 400 | 377 |
With the exception of ‘within one year’, totals will differ from the published tables in the Homelessness in Scotland: 2020 to 2021 publication, which are presented on a cumulative basis i.e. those assessed within two years include those assessed within one year, those assessed within three years include those assessed within one and two years etc.
Source: HL1 data collection as at 29-06-2021