Jackie Baillie has slammed the SNP for failing Scotland’s children after new data revealed 210 local households with children have been stuck in temporary accommodation for between six months and one year across West Dunbartonshire and Argyll and Bute.

A further 35 households with children in West Dunbartonshire and 25 in Argyll and Bute have been left in temporary accommodation for between one and two years.

This comes just weeks after national data showed Scotland’s homelessness crisis at an all time high, with a record-breaking number of children in temporary accommodation and overall homelessness at record-breaking levels.

Jackie Baillie said: “Spending months on end in temporary accommodation waiting for a home is no start in life.

“The devastating impact this will have on these young people’s will stay with them their whole lives.

“Both the SNP and the Tory parties are more wrapped up in spin and melodrama than in finding real solutions to this problem and fighting homelessness.

“This crisis has been allowed to spiral out of control – and it is Scotland’s children who are paying the price. The figures across West Dunbartonshire and Argyll and Bute are terrible while there should not be a single child in Scotland facing such long waits to find a stable home. The SNP must take urgent action now or else this crisis will only continue to worsen.”