End Of Long-Term Tenancies Will ‘Damage Family Life’

Ministers face intense pressure to drop plans to end long-term, secure tenancies for families in social housing, amid rising concern that it would harm the education of children and damage family life. The former head of the civil service Lord Kerslake, now a crossbench peer, said that the proposals, which were quietly inserted by the government into the housing and planning bill at the end of last year, were unacceptable.  Kerslake, who is backed by Labour and Liberal Democrat peers as well as other crossbenchers and bishops, said that families would lack any sense of security about where their long-term home was, and that children would have to move schools several times during their years in education. Read more on the Observer website.