Scotland's Housing Minister Kevin Stewart released statistics showing 12,343 children were part of live homelessness applications on Christmas Day 2018.
The number of children homeless across Scotland had been rising since the 2015 figure of 10,508, until last year when it fell by 424 to 12,858.The local authority with the largest number of children on its live homeless applications last Christmas was Glasgow City Council at 2,475, followed by Edinburgh City Council on 2,153. South Lanarkshire Council having the third largest number at 796.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/more-than-12-000-children-in-scotland-homeless-at-christmas-1-5065951
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