130,000 children will go to bed tonight in a place they can’t call home. Help us end this scandal in 21st century Britain. Help to give them the keys to their future.
Help end child homelessness
Nearly 130,000 children in Britain are homeless, roughly the population of Oxford.
Growing up with no permanent home leads to chronic insecurity, poor health, families at breaking point, and forces children to grow up on the edge of society: anxious, depressed and often out of school.
For more than 40 years, Shelter has campaigned for a decent home for all. Now we are tackling the shocking scale of this hidden problem with Keys to the Future – our blueprint to end child homelessness.
Thanks to the generosity and backing of our supporters, Keys to the Future has reached more than 3,700 children, young people and their families since the start of the project in 2007.
In the last year, we have:
- launched the first four practical projects: educational support in Newham, London; emotional and social support in Bristol; peer education in Gloucestershire; educational support in Scotland.
- launched the Shelter Children’s Legal Service, providing vital free legal advice to homeless children and their families.
- started campaigning for better policies in London, the South East and South West of England.
- been recognised by the Government as an example of good practice for the project in Bristol and proposed project in Knowsley, Merseyside.
‘My child’s behaviour at school was bad, now it’s better and he’s getting A’s, before he was getting C’s – I’m so glad’
Parent of a child client at Keys to the Future London project.
- Keys to the Future is a Shelter project. Visit the Shelter website.