Councils have described a government ban on local authorities using bed and breakfast hotels for homeless families for longer than six weeks as perverse. Following the announcement from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Local Government Association said councils were being put in an untenable position.Ruth Bagnall, who chairs the Association’s Housing Executive, said the move left authorities with no flexibility in dealing with individual cases and for circumstances outside their control. It was increasingly likely, she said, that the vast majority of local authorities would meet the government’s target next March, but some areas had not been so fortunate in receiving the same level of funding and resources from central government and might have experienced a higher rise in house prices.
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