R ( AN ) v BARKING AND DAGENHAM LBC ( 2025 ) EWHC 2265 ( Admin ) is one of many judicial review claims which raises issues on the adequacy in difficult circumstances of efforts by a local housing authority ( LHA ) to provide housing assistance to a homeless family. The Court stresses ( para3 ) the importance of LHAs carrying out “ proper and informed assessments “ of the housing needs of homeless persons, and ( para 4 ) that where the only housing accommodation they have yet been able to offer to a family with children is temporary bed & breakfast accommodation that “ continues no longer than necessary.” There were two grounds of challenge. Ground 1 concerned the lawfulness of the LHA’s Housing Needs Assessment. That succeeded. Ground 2 was that the LHA’s “ Temporary Accommodation Placement Policy “ was unlawful. That failed.
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