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The home of Corelle Tertullien, 26, where she lives with her two children aged two and nine months, in Bordars Walk, Hanwell, west London, where converted shipping containers have been re-purposed for use as temporary accommodation
MINISTERS should hang their heads in shame at new figures that reveal thousands of children in England are growing up in shipping containers and other types of temporary shelter, Labour has said.
Shadow housing secretary John Healey spoke out after the children’s commissioner, an official appointed by government to promote and protect children’s rights, warned that more than 210,000 children now have no permanent home.
In a new report, Bleak Houses, published today, commissioner Anne Longfield said: “Something has gone very wrong with our housing system when children are growing up in B&Bs, shipping containers and old office blocks.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
