However her barrister Colin Mandy in his opening address said she had done so at several occasions over her life.
Lambeth Council says it had made a direct offer of suitable permanent accommodation to Ms Afriyie but she turned it down and requested a review. The review found that the permanent property proposed was suitable.Local authorities have a legal duty to provide temporary accommodation to anyone who qualifies as homeless.
Adam Hug, housing spokesperson for the Local Government Association, is calling on the government to urgently increase the temporary accommodation subsidy in the upcoming Spending Review."Frozen temporary accommodation subsidy rates have left councils to pick up more than £700m in temporary accommodation costs that they are unable to claim back from government."The government says the forthcoming
aims to introduce better protections for all children and better join-up between children's social care, schools and other local services.Through the children not in school registers, there will be a single unique identifier for every child and a requirement for every council to have multi-agency child protection team.
"Protecting vulnerable children falling through the cracks are at the heart of the forthcoming Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which represents the single biggest piece of child protection legislation in a generation," a government spokesperson said.
"We are also investing £1bn in homelessness services this year to help families trapped in temporary accommodation, driving up housing standards and delivering on our commitment to build more social and affordable homes.""Everyone's kind of scratching their heads a bit here," Michael Breen, a Seoul-based consultant and former journalist who covered the Koreas, tells the BBC. While conservatives in South Korea have been "very divided and feeble" over the last decade, he says, Yoon is "now more popular with them than he was before he tried to introduce martial law".
This solidarity has likely been fuelled by a shared dislike of the opposition, which has launched multiple attempts to impeach members of Yoon's cabinet, pushed criminal investigations against Yoon and his wife, and used its parliamentary majority to impeach Yoon's replacement Han Duck-soo."I think the opposition party's power in the assembly went to its head," says Mr Breen. "Now they've shot themselves in the foot."
An embattled Yoon has become larger than life, rebranded as a martyr who saw martial law as the only way to save South Korea's democracy."If it wasn't for the good of the country, he wouldn't have chosen martial law, where he would have to pay with his life if he failed," a pro-Yoon rally attendee, who gave only his surname Park, told the BBC.