FOI release

Homeless households in out-of-borough temp accommodation

Case reference FOI2025/00745

Received 21 August 2025

Published 22 August 2025

Request

I am requesting some information under the Freedom of Information Act, pertaining to homeless households in out-of-borough temporary accommodation. At the bottom of this email I have included an example table for how to provide the data, though another format is acceptable if needed. If you cannot provide all the data, please provide the parts you can, and clearly mark the parts you cannot provide. If you have advice on how I could refine my request, that would be appreciated. Please provide this data as the number of placement, at two seperate points in time: 31 March 2025, and 30 June 2025. 1. The number of homeless households placed by your council in out-of-borough temporary accommodation, and of these the number of households with children - broken down by borough/district placed in 2. The number of households that your council received Section 208 notices for from other councils, and of these the number of households with children - broken down by borough/district received from. Here is an example table, for how I would prefer the data to be provided, but other formats are acceptable. 31 March 2025 31 March 2025 30 June 2025 30 June 2025 Households placed out of borough Total households Households with children Total households Households with children Total out of borough placements Total out of borough placements in [X council] Total out of borough placements in [X council] 31 March 2025 31 March 2025 30 June 2025 30 June 2025 Section 208 notices received Total households Households with children Total households Households with children Total Section 208 notices received Section 208 notices received from [X council] Section 208 notices received from [X council]

Response

	31 March 2025	31 March 2025	30 June 2025	30 June 2025
Households placed out of borough	Total households	Households with children	Total households	Households with children
Total out of borough placements	6	2	6	1
Total out of borough placements in Sevenoaks	2	1	0	1
Total out of borough placements in Eastbourne	2	1	1	0
Total out of borough placements in Bexley	1	0	1	0
Total out of borough placements in Medway	1	0	2	0
Total out of borough placements in Maidstone	2	0	1	0
Total out of borough placements in Dover	0	0	1	0
	31 March 2025	31 March 2025	30 June 2025	30 June 2025
Section 208 notices received	Total households	Households with children	Total households	Households with children
Total Section 208 notices received	0	0	0	0
Section 208 notices received from [X council]	0	0	0	0
Section 208 notices received from [X council]	0	0	0	0

No Section 208 notifications received on 31^st March 2025 or 30^th June 2025. Cannot advise whether households remained placed in accommodation since no duty to notify boroughs when placements end.

Documents

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This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.