UK: Temporary Accommodation Violates Children’s Rights

By Human Rights Watch

(London) – Children in London are growing up in substandard and uninhabitable “temporary accommodation” as a result of persistent policy failures by central and local government, Human Rights Watch and the Childhood Trust said in a joint report released today. The UK government is failing in its duty to ensure the right to adequate housing for homeless families. January 17, 2022 “I Want Us to Live Like Humans Again” Families in Temporary Accommodation in London, UK Download the full report in English The 51-page report, “I Want Us to Live Like Humans Again”: Families in…

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