Survey conducted to encourage funding of social homes.
Homelessness charity Shelter is calling for the Government to commit to funding 20,000 extra social homes each year to give young people a better start in life, after finding that more than 40,000 16- to 18-year-olds living in bad housing in England have no GCSEs.
Young people in bad housing are five times more likely to lack a quiet place to do homework than other children. These figures are cited in Shelter's Against the Odds report, issued today, which includes a combination of data from the Government's Family and Children Study as well as a survey of 3,477 11- to 15-year-olds and interviews with 6,940 families.
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