Information reported quarterly by local authorities includes the number of households in temporary accommodation on the last day of the quarter, as arranged by the local authority under homelessness legislation. The number of children or expected children in these households has been reported since June 2004. Figures reported by all local authorities, including those in the East of England, are provided in a table which has been placed in the Library of the House.
Estimates of the number of children living in non-decent homes in each of the East of England boroughs are not available. However, estimates derived from the 2003 English House Condition Survey suggest 300,000 children live in homes that did not meet the decent homes standard in the East of England in 2003. This is a modelled estimate.
Estimates of the number of children living in overcrowded households in each of the East of England boroughs are not available. However, for the whole of the East of England it is estimated, from the Survey of English Housing, that there were 71,000 children living in overcrowded households (averaged over the period 2003-04 to 2005-06).
There is a measure of overlap between the different housing problems with a proportion of children living in homes with two or all three problems identified. It is not possible to directly assess this overlap.