The All Party Parliamentary Group for Households in Temporary Accommodation can announce three pieces of key information:
- Data collected by the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD)shows that between 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2025, 104 children have died with temporary accommodation as a contributing factor to their vulnerability, ill-health, or death. Of these 104 children, 76 were under the age of 1.
- New data collected for the first time by MBRRACE-UK uncovers that out of all 3,303 deaths of babies born between 1st January and 3rd December 2024, at least 91, 64 stillbirths & 27 neonatal deaths, were to mothers living in temporary accommodation.
- Poverty, deprivation, and race inequalities are some of the other main factors leading to child mortality where temporary accommodation is also a contributing factor to death.
The APPG can also announce that 140 children have died, with their main residence listed as temporary accommodation, between October 2023 and September 2025. Whether temporary accommodation was a contributing factor to these deaths will be assessed through the usual death review process, meaning the 104 figure could increase in the following years.
