Housing

Are we playing with their future?

How much do you know about our children's chances in life?

 

How many times more likely are homeless children to miss school?

How many times more likely is a child living in overcrowded housing to contract meningitis?

How much higher is the risk of severe ill health and disability as a result of bad housing?

How many children in Britain are suffering in bad housing?

 

New research warns that the Government is failing a generation of children growing up homeless or in squalid, cramped conditions.

It shows that the impacts of homelessness and bad housing can stay with children for life, affecting their longer term chances to be healthy, happy and fulfil their potential.

 

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