Research by the housing charity found that more than half (56 per cent) of teachers UK-wide have worked at a school with children who were homeless or became homeless.
The charity warns there are around 136,000 homeless children living in Britain, facing a raft of challenges at school including hunger, tiredness, missing out on lessons and poor hygiene.
Almost nine in ten (88 per cent) teachers report that homeless children have missed lessons. This is often due to difficult or long journey times to school, which is far from where they are being accommodated, sometimes in temporary housing such as hostels.
A similar proportion (87 per cent) found that homeless children are coming to school hungry, often due to lack of suitable cooking facilities at their hostels and bed and breakfast accommodation.
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