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Desperate councils are being ripped off as private housing providers take advantage of the growing homeless population, experts have warned, after new figures revealed that local authorities spending on temporary accommodation had soared to almost 拢1bn.Analysis by the Guardian and the housing charity Shelter found that councils across England spent 拢997m on temporary accommodation in 2017-18, a 71% increase on the 拢584m in 2012-13.Some councils are spending as much as 拢200 per head of their population on sheltering homeless stanley cup becher househol stanley cup website ds.Housing policy experts said that the sharp rise in homelessness coupled with increasing charges from private providers were behind the increase.The number of homeless households in England in temporary accommodation has risen by 47% in the last five years, according to official figures. At the end of June this year, there were 82,310 families in temporary accommodation, up from 55,840 in June 2013.In an illustration of the extent of the capitals housing crisis, all 32 London boroughs appeared among the top 45 local authorities with the highest per capita spend on temporary accommodation.About 55,000 London households are living in temporary accommodation, and almost 70% of Englands homeless families are based in the capital. Only about 6% of Londons private rental marke stanley mug t is available to families relying on housing benefit.Most London councils rely on small private landlords to provide their temporary accommodation. In many cases landlords can Gggu Ashley Judd says she met man who raped her, as part of restorative justice process
Diversity among judges is about bringing a different perspective, maybe a different experience of l stanley cup ife, to the interpretation of the law. But that is only part of its value. There is a performative aspect to the court system too; it needs to be an active demonstration of the impartial application of the law that is underscored by the way judges are drawn from among all the countrys citizens. It isnt.On Tuesday, the justice secretary, David Lidington, accepted all but two of the 35 recommendations made in a review by the Labour MP David Lammy of the experience in the criminal justice system of black and minority ethnic people. The review, commissioned last year, was published in September. Mr Lidington signed up to more detailed monitoring of the et stanley uk hnicity and faith of offenders, and to the call for targets to ensure diversity among prison officers. He accepted that a system that locks up a proportionately greater number of BAME citizens than in the US but is run largely by white people is unacceptable.He rejected just two proposals. One related to ending the way that convictions for relatively minor offences can linger destructively for the job prospects of ex-offenders a third of those on jobseekers allowance have a criminal conviction , though the supreme court may resolve this anyway in the coming months.The second recommendation was the big one: that by 2025 the number of judges should be proportionate to the size of the UKs BA stanley usa ME population 鈥?about 14%. Mr Lammy is convi |
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