A laughing, happy four-year-old girl leaves her classroom at the end of a school day and runs to her mother Naomi who sweeps her off her feet in a loving embrace. Few people observing this warm, everyday domestic scene would guess at the incredible hardship Naomi faces as a homeless mother on a daily basis - because Naomi is not the face we typically associate with homelessness.
Naomi, 31, became homeless five years ago after she fell out with her family. That was the start of a nightmarish ordeal for Naomi that five years later is still ongoing, with the council slow to offer her housing and eventually finding her temporary places to live that have been unsafe or inappropriate for a pregnant mother, and latterly a mother with a young child.
