Operation of the Homeless Persons legislation in Scotland: national and local authority analyses 2006-07

Table 15 Applications assessed as potentially homeless by local authority: 2006-07

	Potentially homelessness	Homeless or potentially homelessness	%	Became homeless before discharge of duty	Contact maintained until discharge of duty ¹	%
	Applications assessed as			Applications assessed as potentially homeless
Scotland	5,769	42,099	14	1,397	4,031	35
Aberdeen City	82	1,466	6	12	68	18
Aberdeenshire	150	1,056	14	13	93	14
Angus	264	900	29	36	246	25
Argyll & Bute	36	615	6	5	21	24
Clackmannanshire	4	706	1	2	4	50
Dumfries & Galloway	301	1,072	28	49	275	18
Dundee City	764	1,119	68	55	542	10
East Ayrshire	127	849	15	69	102	68
East Dunbartonshire	52	456	11	5	6	83
East Lothian	105	681	15	60	79	76
East Renfrewshire	41	290	14	26	37	70
Edinburgh, City of	634	5,183	12	340	534	64
Eilean Siar	10	163	6	2	7	29
Falkirk	399	1,375	29	22	154	14
Fife	37	2,740	1	12	22	55
Glasgow City	744	8,609	9	165	416	40
Highland	401	1,610	25	84	236	36
Inverclyde	10	492	2	1	9	11
Midlothian	53	588	9	20	26	77
Moray	177	565	31	2	148	1
North Ayrshire	4	1,112	*	3	4	75
North Lanarkshire	186	2,794	7	9	96	9
Orkney	40	124	32	13	32	41
Perth & Kinross	343	658	52	197	204	97
Renfrewshire	47	781	6	1	41	2
Scottish Borders, The	19	573	3	10	14	71
Shetland	19	131	15	10	10	100
South Ayrshire	12	397	3	3	6	50
South Lanarkshire	395	1,870	21	85	333	26
Stirling	9	499	2	5	6	83
West Dunbartonshire	-	1,145	-	-	-	-
West Lothian	304	1,480	21	81	260	31

Note: All assessments within period.

1. Excludes cases assessed in the period which have not been closed by the end of the period.

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