MORE than 100,000 children will be homeless this Christmas, housing charity Shelter warned yesterday — equivalent to about four pupils at every school in Britain.

Charity workers condemned the “terrible milestone” of 15,000 more children than last year being stuck in temporary accommodation.

In a review of official statistics, Shelter found that the number of families living in often cramped and unsafe bed and breakfasts — packed into a single room and sharing facilities with strangers — had more than tripled under the Tories and had increased by a quarter to 2,700 in the past year.