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?

Join the Policy Institute as we explore the practical, political and long-term solutions needed to end to child homelessness in the UK. Bringing together leading campaigners, journalists, and researchers, we’ll consider how homelessness and moving into temporary accommodation affects children’s education, health and development, and outline the urgent steps required to ensure that preventable harm, including tragic and avoidable deaths, become a thing of the past.

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