At least 56,000 primary school children in England will spend Christmas homeless, according to new figures that show that one in nine pupils in some London primary schools don’t have a place to live.
Ministry of Housing data obtained and analysed by charity Shelter found that in London at least one in 24 primary school children are living in temporary accommodation, with the group’s chief executive, Polly Neate, using the figures to urge the government to accelarate the contrustruction of social housing rentals.
