Cost of attending to the homeless during the coronavirus crisis costs West Lothian Council extra £700,000
Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.West Lothian Council’s spending on the homeless blew its budget by almost three-quarters of a million pounds in the last year.The council, faced with a surge in demand and the knock-on effects of the Covid lockdown, had to fork out an extra £707,000 to meet the costs of a demand for B&B accommodation.The figures were revealed to the council’s Services for the Community Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel.Delivering a 12-month monitoring report on the performance of the general revenue fund Pamela Bell, senior service accountant, said that some savings had been made by Housing, Building and Customer Services.Staffing savings in the Community