1. Introduction
2.Summary of the legislation
3. Trends in applications and local authority assessments
4. Action taken by local authorities following assessment
5. Time taken to complete action
6. Use of temporary accommodation
7. Characteristics of applicants - main priority
need category
8. Characteristics of applicants - reason for loss/threatened
loss of accommodation
9. Characteristics of applicants - household type
10. Appendix of Tables: Notes on Tables
Table 1: Number of households applying to local
authorities under the homeless persons legislation: April 1997 to end of March
1998
Table 2: Applicant households under the homeless persons
legislation by local authority assessment and year: Scotland 1987-88 to 1997-98
Table 3: Number of households and number of applicant
households assessed as homeless: 1997-98
Table 4: Number of households applying to local authorities
as homeless or potentially homeless: 1986-87 to 1997-98
Table 5: Households assessment, 1997-98, by local authority
assessment
Table 6: Applicant Households by local authority assessment
and action Scotland 1997-98
Table 7: Type of accommodation secured, Scotland 1987-88
to 1997-98
Table 8: Applicant households 1997-98, local authority
assessment and accommodation found
Table 9: Applicant households in Scotland by assessment,
accommodation secured and month of completion
Table 10: Households assessed as in priority need, 1997-98,
time between month of application and month of completion
Table 11: Households assessed as in priority need, 1997-98,
time between month of application and month of completion
Table 12: Households in Scotland in temporary accommodation
at 31 March by type of accommodation: 1988 to 1998
Table 13: Applicant households by priority need category,
Scotland 1987-88 to 1997-98
Table 14: Applicant households in Scotland by reason for
loss/threatened loss of accommodation: Scotland 1987-88 to 1997-98
Table 15: Reason for
loss of accommodation 1997-98, all applicant households
Table 16: Applicant households 1997-98, by type of household
Table 17: Applicant households by household type, Scotland
1995-96 to 1997-98
Table 18: Applicant households by household type and local
authority assessment, Scotland 1997-98
Table 19: Applicant households assessed as in priority
need and homeless or potentially homeless: by reason for loss/threatened loss
of accommodation and household type, Scotland 1997-98
Table 20: Applicant households assessed as in priority
need by local authority action and household type, Scotland 1997-98
Table 21: Households assessed as in priority need,
1997-98: type of household and local authority action
Annex: Statistical Notes
The Scottish Executive Statistical Services and The Government
Statistical Service
Most recent Scottish Office/Scottish Executive Development
Departinent Statistical Publications relating to housing and contact telephone
numbers
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