English councils breaking law in ‘secretly’ relocating homeless people
Many do not notify new local authority and flout guidance to keep people in neighbourhoods
Councils across England are systematically breaking the law by relocating hundreds of homeless people outside of their boroughs without notifying the authorities receiving them.
An investigation found that schools are being overwhelmed, with northern cities such as Bradford having received at least 290 households from 31 different boroughs in the past two years, many of them from London, Kent and Essex.
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