y drives a lot of that… It’s really significant, and it ends up disproportionately impacting some communities.... We looked at two areas of acute deprivation, one predominantly long- term, stable community in social housing, the other an almost identical profile in terms of poverty but is mostly very cheap rental property, so, everything very similar apart from the housing. But the children who are escalating in crisis and coming into care are off the scale higher in [the latter community] ... and that’s where a lot of the 14 families from the south get rehoused as well… Housing is the issue, that is the key difference (DCS, County, North East Region) Safeguarding and wellbeing concerns created by insufficient affordable housing and homelessness ran through survey responses and DCS interviews; concerns have been raised in past SP reports but never to the scale and extent seen now. Around half of survey respondents said local populations had increased and provided information on the impact of inward and outward movements. Areas of lower cost accommodation attracted families struggling with the cost of living, increasing local child populations and contributing to increased general pressure on public services and children’s social care in particular. Just under three-fifths (59%) of SP9 survey respondents said that increased demand on services was being driven by poor quality housing. Over three-fifths (61%) reported increased safeguarding activity linked with homelessness. Just over half (54%) said that demand on children’s social care was being driven by housing need amongst homeless young people. Data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) show that there were 151,630 homeless children living in temporary accommodation in the first three