No place like home? The crisis of child homelessness in the UK

Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events   Child homelessness in the UK has reached crisis point. The latest official figures reveal a record 172,420 homeless children in England are now living in temporary accommodation – more than the entire population of Oxford. Many are growing up in unsafe, unstable environments, cut off from their schools, GPs, and communities. The crisis is deepening – but what will it take to change course?   Speakers: Kwajo Tweneboa, campaigner, activist, and author of Our Country in Crisis Dan Hewitt, ITV News Investigations Editor Professor Katherine Brickell, Professor of Urban Studies at King’s College London and author of Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State Karen Torres, Advocacy, Research and Campaigns Manager, Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation Professor Michael Sanders, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the School for Government at King’s College London (Chair)