A: No. Councils should not be allowed to drive homeless families to breakdown.

Councils have a duty to house homeless families as safely and securely as they can.

They certainly do not have a duty to make life as hard as they can for people in need.

In my latest podcast, we return to Hackney council – and the council’s ongoing attempts to evict a disabled and autistic 8 year old boy and his family from their council home.

As regular listeners will know, the council wants to evict the family and put them into temporary housing – even though the boy’s medical supporters and teachers say the move will have a terrible effect on him. The council does not have to evict the family at all.

The relentless pressure from the council is pushing the boy’s mother too far.

Should councils run odd tests on disabled children?

I was at a meeting about 10 days ago with the boy’s teachers and a paediatric doctor.

A council social worker at the meeting suggested that the move to temporary housing could be a good chance to see if the boy could cope with moving – because families in temporary housing are moved again and again and again. There’s no security in temporary housing.

The council’s ruling Green party is fighting council staff to do the right thing

Meanwhile, the ruling Green party at Hackney council is at war with its own staff.

The Greens are apparently getting an external legal adviser in to see if the council’s housing officers have behaved as they should have when dealing with this family.

Spoiler alert: they haven’t. Interesting times, though, when councillors take on the Sir Humphries who really run councils.