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Research 'This is no place for a child': The experiences of homeless families in emergency accommodation

By: Jenny Pennington and Catharine Banks
Published: October 2015

'This is no place for a child': The experiences of homeless families in emergency accomodation

The devastating results of the housing shortage are now being felt by over a hundred thousand children. At the end of June 2015, 105,000 children were homeless in Great Britain - the equivalent of four in every school