The figures from the National Child Mortality Database are shocking, but all too often policymakers and society in general turns a blind eye to the plight of homeless children in England.
As a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) the government has acknowledged the rights of all children to adequate housing. Article 27 of the UNCRC says that children and young people should be able to live in a way that helps them reach their full physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social potential. For this to happen, they should have access to adequate food and housing. Yet we have 142,490 children who are known to be living in a B&B, a hotel, a hostel, in temporary housing – which is a converted shipping container in one London borough – or sofa surfing.
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