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Shelter: Hundreds of children are made homeless every day

HUNDREDS of children across Britain are made homeless every day, a new report by the Shelter charity warns.

New figures released by Shelter show that a child loses their home every eight minutes across the country.

The number of children, enough to fill two double-decker buses every day, from the Generation Homeless report shows that child homelessness is at its highest rate since 2006.

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