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Use of shipping containers or similar, or caravan parks for temporary, interim or emergency housing support

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Louisa JAMES
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Dear Leicester City Council,

Please provide me with the answers to the following questions.

1 Does your local authority use converted shipping containers, or similar structures, as 'temporary', 'interim' or 'emergency' accommodation?

Please answer questions 2 to 5 if your authority does use shipping containers or similar structures as temporary accommodation: 

2 (i) How many were in use in the past 12 months from April 2023?
(ii) Please provide the same figures for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, if available. 

3 How many (i) individuals and (ii) families with children are currently being supported in this type of temporary accommodation?

4 What is your policy for the maximum length of time that anyone being assisted by your authority should be kept in this type of accommodation?

5 What is the longest amount of time an (i) individual or (ii) a family has been housed in this type of accommodation?

6 Please outline how many people being supported by your authority in this manner are care leavers, if that information is available.

7 Does your local authority make use of caravan parks, either private or council owned, to house individuals or families, as a form of temporary housing? 

If question 7 is applicable to your authority, please answer the questions 8 to 10

8 (i) How many sites are currently being used?
(ii) How many individual units is this?

9 How many (i) individuals or (ii) family groups are currently being supported in this way?

10 Please outline how many people being supported by your authority in this manner are care leavers, if that information is available.

Yours faithfully,

Louisa JAMES

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Website: [1]www.leicester.gov.uk

E-mail: [2][Leicester City Council request email]

Our Ref: FOIA 30806

Date: 29^th April 2024

 

Louisa James

[3][FOI #1124325 email]

 

Dear Ms James,

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Acknowledgement

 

Thank you for your email of 26^th April 2024 requesting information about
temporary accommodation.

 

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.

 

If you have any queries about this request do not hesitate to contact me.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Governance & Risk

Leicester City Council

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Dear Ms James

 

Please find attached Leicester City Council’s response to your recent
request for information

 

Kind regards

 

Information Governance & Risk

Leicester City Council

City Hall, 115 Charles Street,

Leicester. LE1 1FZ

 

 

 

 

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