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The All Party Parliamentary Group for Households in Temporary Accommodation can announce three pieces of key information: 

  1. Data collected by the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD)shows that between 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2025, 104 children have died with temporary accommodation as a contributing factor to their vulnerability, ill-health, or death.  Of these 104 children, 76 were under the age of 1.
  2. New data collected for the first time by MBRRACE-UK uncovers that out of all 3,303 deaths of babies born between 1st January and 3rd December 2024, at least 91, 64 stillbirths & 27 neonatal deaths, were to mothers living in temporary accommodation.
  3. Poverty, deprivation, and race inequalities are some of the other main factors leading to child mortality where temporary accommodation is also a contributing factor to death. 

The APPG can also announce that 140 children have died, with their main residence listed as temporary accommodation, between October 2023 and September 2025. Whether temporary accommodation was a contributing factor to these deaths will be assessed through the usual death review process, meaning the 104 figure could increase in the following years.

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Over 4,300 children in Manchester are homeless and vulnerable to missing the vital support that schools can provide. Living in Temporary Accommodation can deeply affect their educational attainment and often schools are unaware of a families housing situation until crisis point.

Manchester City Council have adopted a notification protocol that informs schools and GPs of a child’s homelessness status. It is essential these services are aware so they can support the families where needed. Therefore, Manchester City Council, Manchester Communication Academy and the Shared Health Foundation are hosting an online training session that will provide detailed guidance as to how schools can best support our most vulnerable children after receiving this notification on Thursday 16th January at 3:30pm. To join, please use the link below: 

Zoom link

Meeting ID: 829 5690 1265

Passcode: 252636

Please click here to view the guidance for schools when receiving a Temporary Accommodation notification.

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There are 151,630 homeless children in England living in Temporary Accommodation (data from March 2024).

Many are living in dangerous conditions with little support to help them navigate through our complex systems. Families are continuously placed out of area, far away from their school, GP and community. The educational attainment of homeless children plummets when they become homeless. The barriers to healthcare increases and children’s health and development suffer. There is a national focus and political will for rough sleeping, but less so for families. And tragically, 55 children have died in Temporary Accommodation, most were under 1.

And yet, we dare to hope.

After hosting a successful Manchester conference earlier this year, we now held our Homeless Families: Dare to Hope Conference in London as well, in partnership with Amnesty International UK, to continue encouraging, supporting and inspiring people working with homeless families in any capacity. 

We want to bring together our experts by experience alongside colleagues from housing, health, education, the home office and the voluntary and faith sector. Whether you are front line, a volunteer, a commissioner or a politician, the crisis of homeless families is all our responsibility to share.

Things can and will get better.

We look forward to hosting more gatherings to look at and work to improve the health and education outcomes for children and families in the homelessness journey.

For more information about Shared Health please email contact@contactsharedhealth.org.uk

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There are 151,630 homeless children in England living in Temporary Accommodation (data from March 2024).

Many are living in dangerous conditions with little support to help them navigate through our complex systems. Families are continuously placed out of area, far away from their school, GP and community. The educational attainment of homeless children plummets when they become homeless. The barriers to healthcare increases and children’s health and development suffer. There is a national focus and political will for rough sleeping, but less so for families. And tragically, 55 children have died in Temporary Accommodation, most were under 1.

And yet, we dare to hope.

The Homeless Families Conference: Dare to Hope was hosted by the Shared Health Foundation in partnership with GMCA to encourage, support and inspire people working with homeless families in any capacity. If you feel like you’re on your own, you’re not.

We want to bring together our experts by experience alongside colleagues from housing, health, education, the home office and the voluntary and faith sector. Whether you are front line, a volunteer, a commissioner or a politician, the crisis of homeless families is all our responsibility to share.

Things can and will get better.

The video recordings of all the talks can be found on our YouTube channel, please do watch and share with your colleagues.

We look forward to hosting more gatherings to look at and work to improve the health and education outcomes for children and families in the homelessness journey.

For more information about Shared Health please email contact@contactsharedhealth.org.uk