Study reveals rise in children raised in squalid rental homes

One in three homes in England at lowest rents are classed as non-decent, analysis showsA quarter of a million families bringing up babies and infants in England are living in privately rented accommodation that fails to meet the decent homes standard, it has emerged.The number of households bringing up children aged under four in squalid conditions, which can include damp walls, broken heating and infestations of rats, has increased by an estimated 75,000 since 2007, according to analysis of off