Information on children in temporary accommodation is only available from 2004. Figures for local authorities in London are provided in the following table.
Local authority 2004 2005 2006 Barking and Dagenham 589 614 958 Barnet 2— 3,003 2— Bexley 632 598 612 Brent 7,087 6,742 5,933 Bromley 2— 1,087 1,271 Camden 2,438 2,703 2,319 City of London 54 0 28 Croydon 5,006 4,325 3,547 Ealing 2— 3,640 3,362 Enfield 6,649 6,890 2— Greenwich 523 842 963 Hackney 3,165 3,155 2,900 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,649 2,767 2,786 Haringey 2— 6,442 2— Harrow 2,526 2,373 2,298 Havering 802 1,013 675 Hillingdon 3,394 2,552 2,482 Hounslow 2— 1,500 2— Islington 2— 1,735 2— Kensington and Chelsea 2— 2— 346 Kingston upon Thames 2— 2— 2— Lambeth 2,068 2,450 2,970 Lewisham 1,931 2,445 2,740 Merton 195 108 87 Newham 2— 2— 2— Redbridge 2— 3,554 2— Richmond upon Thames 545 582 496 Southwark 680 1,016 1,352 Sutton 699 765 656 Tower Hamlets 4,918 4,469 3,963 Waltham Forest 2,189 3,924 4,290 Wandsworth 2,012 1,863 1,587 Westminster 2— 2— 2— 1 Households in temporary accommodation (excluding applicants recorded as homeless at home) on the last day of the quarter, as arranged by a local housing authority as a discharge of their statutory homelessness functions. 2 Local authority did not report. Source: P1E quarterly returns
Estimates of the number of children living in non-decent homes or in overcrowded households in each London borough is not available.