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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

Newly arrived Ukrainian refugees forced to register as homeless in UK as councils ‘left to pick up the pieces’

Lucy Young

Newly arrived Ukrainian refugees are registering as homeless in the UK, leaving local councils to “pick up the pieces” and arrange emergency housing for them with no additional funding from central government.

Families who have fled the Russian invasion and been granted visas on the Ukraine family scheme are arriving in Britain without anywhere to stay because their UK-based relatives do not have space in their homes to house them, local authorities and charities have warned.

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