Child Poverty Bill
10:41 am
Sally Keeble (Northampton North, Labour)
No, not housing associations. Sorry—it is housing authorities and district councils in areas where there is two-tier local government. District councils as housing authorities are specifically excluded. Under Every Child Matters, the Department for Children, Schools and Families has excluded housing authorities from responsibility. There is a clause that specifically excludes housing authorities; they are not responsible authorities, they are partner authorities, yet it is those authorities that have to deliver on this overcrowding standard. I welcome any improvement to the overcrowding standard; I think it is wonderful, but it must be delivered.